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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 \nZipline is building an autonomous delivery service that helps goods move quickly and reliably through the real world. As the service scales, decisions about pricing, routing, fleet utilization, charging, network planning, and customer experience must work across software, vehicles, and field operations. As a Senior Data Scientist on the Data Science & Analytics team, you will own high-leverage marketplace and operational decision problems from framing through launch and iteration. You will turn ambiguous questions into models, experiments, simulations, tools, and recommendations that product, engineering, operations, commercial, and business teams can use to scale the network.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead analysis and decision systems for priority domains including pricing, routing, fleet utilization, charging strategy, experimentation, and network planning.\nFrame ambiguous business and product questions, select the right analytical approach, and make clear recommendations with tradeoffs and expected impact.\nBuild machine learning, statistical, optimization, forecasting, and simulation models for marketplace, operational, and product decisions.\nDesign and analyze A/B tests, quasi-experiments, causal studies, and metric frameworks to evaluate features, policies, and growth interventions.\nPartner with engineers to productionize models, decision systems, data products, and experimentation infrastructure.\nOwn post-launch decision quality by monitoring model and KPI performance, identifying drift or missed outcomes, and driving iterations with engineering and operating partners.\nCommunicate complex findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning teams on decisions that improve reliability, utilization, customer experience, and unit economics.\nWhat You'll Bring\n6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, applied statistics, operations research, economics, or a related analytical field.\nExperience applying machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, or causal inference to real-world product or business problems.\nStrong Python, C/C++, or Go programming skills, plus SQL proficiency and experience working with large, complex datasets.\nExperience designing and interpreting experiments, including A/B tests, multiarm bandits, power analysis, metric design, and ambiguous causal results.\nExperience with marketplace, logistics, mobility, delivery, pricing, routing, fleet management, or similarly complex operational systems.\nAbility to build usable, explainable models and tools and to drive work from problem definition through measurable business impact. \nA quantitative degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, operations research, economics, engineering, physics, or a related field; advanced degree preferred, not required.\nWhat Else You Need To Know \nThe starting cash range for this role is $160,000-220,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. 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. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. 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