About the Role: 

Wing is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Delivery Network team based in Palo Alto, CA.

What You’ll Do:

• Optimize the flow of delivery drones through a network with limited resources.
• Rapidly explore optimization ideas by developing a prototype implementation, gathering data, quantifying impact, and clearly communicating the results in context with business objectives.
• Instrument, analyze, and model system performance metrics such as task throughput, takeoff delay, fleet utilization, and pickup estimation.
• Develop models to simulate system performance and evaluate new algorithms.
• Judiciously apply techniques from operations research and mathematical optimization to boost delivery network performance and key business metrics.
• Work with a multidisciplinary team of engineers to create highly scalable production systems.

What You’ll Need: 

• Solid coding skills and a willingness to learn C++.
• Experience framing and solving routing, scheduling, or resource allocation problems.
• MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Bonus: 

• Hands-on experience with commercial or open-source optimization solvers and the ability to tune their performance for Wing's specific use cases.
• Path planning for autonomous vehicles
• Scaling distributed systems
• Experience building and managing a team