Software Tools Engineer

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Zipline

Kigali, Rwanda

On-site

Posted April 1, 2026

Job Description

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 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.

About You and The Role

We are seeking a talented and motivated Software Tools Engineer to join our Autonomy Annotation team, where you will play a pivotal role in building, enhancing, and maintaining the tools used for annotation to support Zipline’s autonomy development efforts. In this role, you will focus on developing and supporting tools used by both the Annotation Team, internal customers and external contractors responsible for annotations. Your work will help enable the quality and scalability of the data used to train and validate autonomous systems, directly impacting the performance and safety of our autonomous aircraft.

What You'll Do

Tool Development & Maintenance: Design, develop and maintain a suite of internal and external-facing tools that support the annotation team processes.
Collaboration with Internal Customers: Work closely with the Internal Customers (Perception and ML teams) to understand their needs and requirements for annotation tools, ensuring that the tools are optimized for their workflows and deliver high-quality, accurate data.
External Tool Integration: Facilitate seamless integration with external contractors responsible for data annotation, managing tool access and ensuring proper data handling and security practices.
Automation & Efficiency: Identify opportunities to automate and optimize manual processes within the annotation workflows to reduce time and increase efficiency without compromising quality.
Data Integrity & Quality Control: Implement features to track the progress and quality of annotations, monitor for errors and provide feedback to ensure the highest standards of data quality.
Version Control & Documentation: Maintain versioned releases of the annotation tools, ensuring proper documentation is in place for both internal users and external contractors.
Bug Fixes & Troubleshooting: Respond to and resolve technical issues that arise with annotation tools, both in production environments and in development cycles.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with other engineering teams (e.g., Data Platform Team) to integrate the annotation tools with other internal systems and pipelines, as well as ensure smooth data flow between teams.
Continuous Improvement: Continuously monitor the tool usage and performance, gather feedback from users, and iterate on the t