Senior Motion Planning Software Engineer

Join Zipline, the world's largest autonomous logistics system, as a Senior Motion Planning Software Engineer. In this role, you will develop cutting-edge decision-making and trajectory planning approaches for autonomous flight. You will tackle joint optimization across safety, energy, time, and reliability, and design safety-critical software for obstacle avoidance and human interaction. You will also extend the autonomy stack for new aircraft and payloads, and validate safety metrics using real fleet data.

• Concevoir et développer des systèmes autonomes pour la planification de trajectoire et la prise de décision.
• Construire des algorithmes de génération de trajectoire en temps réel et de prise de décision pour le vol autonome.
• Collaborer avec les équipes de perception, de contrôle et d'exploitation de vol pour assurer l'intégration des systèmes.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of experience building software for safety-critical systems (aerospace/AV/robotics)
• Systems thinker who collaborates tightly with perception, controls, and flight ops; crisp docs and design reviews
• Strong in Rust/C++/C for real-time, fault-tolerant code on embedded/Linux
• Depth in planning & search (e.g. A*/ anytime / RRT*/sampling), trajectory optimization/MPC—shipped on real robots/vehicles
• Evidence of shipping production-grade autonomy through ambiguous, noisy conditions—owning the last mile to reliability
• Hands-on with simulation at scale, SIL/HIL, log replay, and metrics-driven validation