Base Salary
$130k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Hardware-in-the-Loop test infrastructure integrating aircraft hardware with simulated systems and environments.
- Develop software tools, frameworks, and services for large-scale automated and semi-automated system validation.
- Support a high-throughput flight test organization running thousands of regression and off-nominal tests daily.
- Write and maintain test software, drivers, and interfaces for embedded and Linux-based systems.
- Support test framework architecture and continuous improvements.
- Debug validation failures spanning simulation, hardware, firmware, and application software.
- Collaborate with flight test, systems, avionics, autonomy, and embedded software teams on system-level validation strategies.
- Improve test reliability, debuggability, and signal-to-noise as system complexity and test volume increase.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience with complex, hardware-backed, safety-critical systems.
- Extensive Python experience, specifically with software test systems such as pytest.
- Experience testing Rust and/or C embedded systems.
- Extensive experience working with CI/CD.
- Experience developing and executing test plans for complex, safety-critical, embedded, and cloud software.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to quickly learn new systems for testing purposes.
Benefits
- Equity compensation may be included in the total compensation package.
- Discretionary annual or performance bonuses may be included.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available.
- Paid time off is available.
- Additional benefits may be provided.
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/