2 days ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build C++ firmware for distributed aircraft microcontrollers.
- Develop Ethernet, serial, and other microcontroller communication interfaces.
- Define platform-level interfaces and reusable firmware components for multiple aircraft subsystems.
- Own reliable startup, real-time operation, fault handling, recovery, and communication-bus performance across microcontroller systems.
- Optimize CPU utilization, memory usage, scheduling latency, timing jitter, and resource contention.
- Develop metrics, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities for field deployment at scale.
- Develop Rust-based tooling and software-in-the-loop simulations to test and validate firmware behavior.
Requirements
- Production experience writing C++ for embedded or resource-constrained systems.
- Experience with embedded communications such as Ethernet, serial interfaces, or other hardware communication protocols.
- Experience designing and debugging real-time firmware involving task scheduling, interrupts, concurrency, synchronization, and memory constraints.
- Experience building and maintaining deployed embedded systems and handling edge cases for safety, reliability, and performance.
- Fluency implementing peripheral drivers from electrical schematics and datasheets and debugging at the hardware-software boundary.
- Strong systems thinking and practical debugging intuition.
Benefits
- Hybrid in-office and distributed work environment centered around South San Francisco, California, with regular office attendance required.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, equity compensation, and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.
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.