Senior Perception Engineer, Autonomy & Drones

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ziplineSouth San Francisco (CA)

Robotics Engineers Engineering Services

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About the role

Zipline is hiring Senior and Staff perception engineers to advance the autonomy stack for drone delivery. You will own the design and deployment of cloud/on-prem perception models, and help scale semantic segmentation and 3D geometry tasks using aerial data and real deliveries. You will contribute to architecture, roadmap, and experimentation while shipping features every six weeks in a high-stakes robotics setting. Equity, benefits, and a dynamic team await.

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