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Senior Motion Planning Software Engineer in USA

  • Zipline
  • Full time
  • Email
  • South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Build real-time trajectory generation and decision-making systems for autonomous flight.
  • Optimize safety, energy, time, and reliability while accounting for vehicle constraints.
  • Plan robustly in uncertain environments involving wind, turbulence, degraded sensors, and partial observability.
  • Design safety-critical software for obstacle avoidance and interactions with humans during deliveries and pickups.
  • Extend the autonomy stack for new aircraft and payloads and define interfaces with perception and controls.
  • Validate autonomy software through large-scale simulation, SIL/HIL, log replay, and fault injection.
  • Analyze fleet data to validate safety metrics, improve models, and reduce long-tail failure modes.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in computer science or a related field.
  • At least 3 years of experience building software for safety-critical systems in aerospace, autonomous vehicles, or robotics.
  • Strong Rust, C++, and C programming skills for real-time, fault-tolerant code on embedded systems and Linux.
  • Deep experience with planning, search, trajectory optimization, and model predictive control shipped on real robots or vehicles.
  • Hands-on experience with simulation at scale, SIL/HIL, log replay, and metrics-driven validation.
  • Evidence of shipping production-grade autonomy systems through ambiguous and noisy real-world conditions.
  • Ability to collaborate with perception, controls, and flight operations teams and contribute to technical documentation and design reviews.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Paid time off.
  • The total compensation package may include equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.

Salary: $190k - $230k/yr

Zipline

Zipline is redefining logistics with its instant delivery system that addresses urgent access challenges for a diverse range of customers, including governments and businesses. By leveraging advanced technology like robotics and autonomy, Zipline ensures equitable access to essential goods, wheth...

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