3D Perception Engineer - Autonomy (Droid)

Zipline is operating the world’s largest autonomous logistics network—delivering critical medical and commercial goods globally with high reliability, precision, and scale.

senior and staff perception engineers

, the group responsible for the autonomy that powers Zipline’s backyard delivery experience.

This team owns the full stack of offboard and cloud-side perception systems that inform, validate, and augment our onboard autonomy.

From generating rich 3D and semantic priors from aerial survey data to learning customer preferences and terrain features at scale, your work will define how we prepare Zipline aircraft to perform mission-critical deliveries in complex, real-world environments.

This is not a research role—you’ll be expected to move fast, ship production-grade systems, and find clever ways to apply state-of-the-art techniques to tangible, high-impact problems.

Own the design and implementation of

cloud-side autonomy pipelines

that directly support and scale our onboard perception stack.

Leverage satellite imagery, aerial surveys, and structured data to build

semantic and geometric world models

of customer delivery zones.