Zipline
Staff Software Engineer - Routing Engine
$220K–$260K
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States
About the job
Design and operate real-time optimization and routing systems that plan safe, efficient flight paths for Zipline aircraft across changing airspace and operational conditions.
What you'll do
- Build optimization algorithms for the global routes executed autonomously by aircraft, balancing reliability, throughput, and flight performance.
- Develop high-availability, low-latency routing services with deterministic behavior and fault tolerance.
- Collaborate with autonomy and flight operations teams to power real-world flight operations.
What they ask for
- Experience operating low-latency, high-availability production services.
- Hands-on experience with path planning, graph search, motion planning, or related optimization problems.
- Strong backend or distributed systems engineering fundamentals.
- Track record of driving projects end-to-end and collaborating across teams.
Pay
USD $220,000 - $260,000 starting cash range
Tools
Rust, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS
AI focus
Use modern AI-assisted engineering workflows and agentic tools to increase engineering productivity while maintaining system rigor and code quality.
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