Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain automated validation infrastructure for embedded platform software.
- Build simulation and hardware-in-the-loop test environments for realistic platform-service validation.
- Develop automated tests for IPC, logging and observability, communication bridges, OTA updates, live telemetry, functionality, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Create stress, endurance, regression, and fault-injection test suites for distributed embedded systems.
- Build automated test orchestration, execution, reporting, and dashboard tooling.
- Contribute to continuous integration and automated validation workflows.
- Investigate failures across simulation, HIL, and production environments to identify root causes.
- Collaborate with Embedded Platform engineers to improve testability and define validation strategies.
- Occasionally improve production embedded software to increase reliability, observability, or testability.
Requirements
- Experience developing embedded or systems software.
- Professional experience with Rust, Python, or similar programming languages.
- Experience working with embedded Linux systems.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, networking, interprocess communication, and distributed or multiprocess systems.
- Experience designing automated test frameworks or validation infrastructure.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across software and hardware boundaries.
- Ability to collaborate closely with software engineers to improve system quality and testability.
- Preferred: experience with HIL or simulation-based validation systems.
- Preferred: experience in safety-critical or high-reliability industries such as aerospace, automotive, robotics, industrial systems, or medical devices.
- Preferred: experience with autonomous systems, robotics, distributed embedded systems, OTA updates, observability, telemetry, performance testing, stress testing, fault injection, resilience testing, test orchestration, dashboards, reporting systems, or CI/CD for embedded software.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available.
- Paid time off is available.
- The total compensation package may include equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.
- The role may be hired at Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer, or Staff Software Engineer level based on experience, skills, and scope.
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/