Staff Motion Planning Software Engineer

What this role involves

Zipline is hiring a Staff Motion Planning Software Engineer to develop real-time trajectory generation and decision-making for autonomous drone delivery. The role involves building safety-critical software, optimizing across multiple objectives, and scaling operations to tens of thousands of deliveries in US metros. Requires a Master's degree and 7+ years experience in safety-critical systems with strong Rust/C++/C skills.

Skills this posting asks for

• rust
• c++
• c
• motion planning
• trajectory optimization
• mpc
• search-based planning
• sampling-based planning
• rrt*
• a*
• simulation
• sil
• hil
• log replay
• fault-injection
• embedded systems
• linux
• autonomous systems
• robotics
• aerospace

Requirements

• 7 years of experience
• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

About Zipline Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s larg…