# Senior AI Tooling Software Engineer - Data Platform, Autonomy

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 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. Our 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. Our 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. We operate

- **Id**: 3779244
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zipline-senior-ai-tooling-software-engineer-data-platform-autonomy>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T23:30:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T05:11:06Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-05T05:11:06Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4054
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics, Transportation & Logistics, Delivery, Logistics

## Company

- **Id**: 15878
- **Name**: Zipline
- **Domain**: zipline.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zipline>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.375
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 68
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

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- **Django** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **SRE** — Optional: yes
- **Three.JS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T00:16:43Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-05T05:11:06Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 63 · green card filings: 13; Filings 12m: 63; Filings prev 12m: 47; Green card filings 12m: 13

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