2 months ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft.
- Define and evolve IPC, communications-bridge, OTA-update, logging, observability, and service-lifecycle interfaces for flight software.
- Deliver production Rust and C++ software with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability.
- Set technical direction for cross-service platform architecture and resolve interface tradeoffs affecting multiple teams.
- Partner with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to operate platform services reliably on embedded Linux aircraft systems.
- Investigate failures across software, operating-system, network, and hardware boundaries and drive corrective improvements.
- Establish design-review and engineering practices that improve deployment safety, diagnosability, and adoption.
Requirements
- 5–12 years developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments.
- Strong Rust, C++, or comparable systems-programming skills with reliable software delivery on embedded Linux.
- Working knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, networking, IPC, and distributed or multi-process systems.
- Ability to debug complex behavior across services, operating systems, networks, and hardware.
- Experience designing technical interfaces and carrying cross-functional integrations through delivery.
- Staff-level candidates should have led architecture across multiple systems and influenced decisions beyond an individual component.
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, industrial, medical, or another high-reliability domain is preferred or relevant.
- Experience with autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization is relevant.
Benefits
- Starting cash range is $160,000–$250,000 annually, with potential equity compensation, discretionary bonuses, and medical, dental, vision, and paid-time-off benefits.
- The position may be hired at Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer, or Staff Software Engineer level based on experience, skills, and demonstrated scope.
- Zipline is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and welcomes applicants from underrepresented groups.
About Zipline
Zipline designs, builds, and operates autonomous drone delivery systems for healthcare, retail, and public-sector customers. The privately held company runs end-to-end logistics—aircraft, software, and fulfillment—to deliver blood, vaccines, medicines, and consumer goods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Zipline operates across multiple continents; notable work includes Rwanda’s national blood deliveries and U.S. home delivery pilots with Walmart.