4 hours ago
Base Salary
$210k - $260k/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 built in.
- Set technical direction for cross-service platform architecture and resolve tradeoffs affecting multiple flight-software 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 reliability improvements.
- Establish design-review and engineering practices that make services safer to deploy and easier to diagnose.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments.
- Strong Rust, C++, or comparable systems-programming skills and experience delivering reliable software 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 relevant; autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization are valued.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off.
- Potential equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.
- The final cash pay depends on experience, qualifications, skills, location, and projected impact.
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.