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 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/