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 was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest automated delivery system. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world and is making good on the promise of building an equitable and more resilient global supply chain. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart and enabling leading healthcare providers to bring care into the home in the United States, Zipline is transforming the way goods move. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Zipline is inspiring people, governments, and businesses to imagine what is possible when goods can move as seamlessly as information. To join the team, check out our career page: https://flyzipline.com/careers/