AI Tooling Software Engineer - Data Platform, Autonomy

Zipline • South San Francisco, CA

6d • $180,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Zipline is seeking an AI tooling engineer to join its Autonomy team and build and scale systems that help teams visualize, annotate, debug, and extract signals from vehicles making real-world deliveries. These tools operate near the top of the data funnel and support the feedback loop that improves model and hardware performance and customer experience. The role is suited to an experienced software generalist or someone with exceptional depth in frontend or backend systems.

Requirements

• Experience building data-heavy web applications and improving performance with large datasets.
• Understanding of database query optimization and complex JSON or nested data structures.
• Experience designing backend APIs with frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Working knowledge of cloud databases such as AWS RDS or DocumentDB.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with React, WebGL, or Three.js.
• Experience with platform engineering, API gateways, service meshes, or developer platforms.
• Background in security engineering, application security, site reliability engineering, or incident response.
• Experience establishing technical standards or governance in a fast-moving engineering organization.
• Experience with internal tools, data systems, or AI-enabled applications.
• Experience building systems for real-world operations, logistics, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability services.

Responsibilities

• Build sophisticated multimodal data triage and visualization interfaces for Zipline’s data pipelines so teams can investigate critical autonomy problems.
• Build scalable backend APIs and real-time data pipelines for querying, filtering, and aggregating large datasets.
• Design database schemas, indexes, and query strategies that keep search and analysis fast at scale.
• Partner with autonomy, service, maintenance, and operations teams to improve workflows and build tools for development, troubleshooting, and fleet health.

Benefits

• Equity compensation may be included in the total compensation package.
• Overtime pay may be included in the total compensation package.
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses may be included in the total compensation package.
• Sales incentives may be included in the total compensation package.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed