2 months ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define system-level validation strategies for software performance, reliability, and safety.
- Design, implement, and execute nominal, adversarial, stress, and edge-case scenarios from simulation through full-system flight testing.
- Build metrics, visualizations, real-time performance and safety monitors, and automated validation tools.
- Set validation evidence and exit criteria for release, deployment, and operating-domain expansion decisions.
- Debug and document failures across simulation, hardware, firmware, embedded software, and application software, escalating unresolved safety or performance risks.
- Partner with test infrastructure and data platform teams to improve automated validation coverage, efficiency, and precision.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of software development, software systems engineering, or software validation experience with robotic systems.
- Strong experience in one or more relevant areas including embedded Linux, perception, motion planning, navigation, control, estimation, dynamics, connected systems, or power management.
- Experience developing nominal, adversarial, stress, and edge-case validation for autonomous robotics.
- Experience root-causing failures in complex autonomous systems and working with large datasets in production pipelines.
- Proficiency with Python and SQL, plus a safety-critical programming language such as MISRA C, Rust, or C++.
- Experience applying risk-assessment techniques and deriving software safety or performance requirements from functional safety requirements or similar decompositions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off.
- Potential 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.