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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 largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. \nOur customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.\nOur system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.\nWe operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.\nAbout You and The Role \nAs an AI tooling engineer on the Autonomy team, you will build and scale the systems that help our teams visualize, annotate, debug, and extract signals from vehicles making real-world deliveries every day. These tools sit near the top of the data funnel and power the feedback loop that improves model and hardware performance and the customer experience. We are looking for an experienced software generalist or someone with exceptional depth in frontend or backend systems.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild sophisticated, multimodal data triage and visualization interfaces for Zipline’s data pipelines so teams can investigate critical autonomy problems.\nBuild scalable backend APIs and real-time data pipelines for querying, filtering, and aggregating large datasets.\nDesign database schemas, indexes, and query strategies that keep search and analysis fast at scale.\nPartner with autonomy, service, maintenance, and operations teams to improve workflows and build tools for development, troubleshooting, and fleet health.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nExperience building data-heavy web applications and improving performance with large datasets.\nUnderstanding of database query optimization and complex JSON or nested data structures.\nExperience designing backend APIs with frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.\nWorking knowledge of cloud databases such as AWS RDS or DocumentDB.\nNice to Have\nExperience with React, WebGL, or Three.js.\nExperience with platform engineering, API gateways, service meshes, or developer platforms.\nBackground in security engineering, application security, site reliability engineering, or incident response.\nExperience establishing technical standards or governance in a fast-moving engineering organization.\nExperience with internal tools, data systems, or AI-enabled applications.\nExperience building systems for real-world operations, logistics, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability services.\nWhat Else You Need To Know \nThe starting cash range for this role is $180,000 - $250,000. 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The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.\nZipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.\nWe value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!\nVoluntary Self-Identification\nFor government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. 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