2 months ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop reusable simulation-platform infrastructure for execution, scheduling, orchestration, APIs, and developer tooling.
- Integrate flight software, cloud services, embedded software, and hardware into deterministic virtual environments.
- Scale simulation from single-vehicle debugging to fleet-scale testing across thousands of scenarios in CI.
- Partner with engineering teams to create tests, debug failures, improve workflows, and expand simulation capabilities.
- Support validation of autonomous flight logic, cloud connectivity, vehicle coordination, system integration, safety cases, and operational resilience.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in C++ or Rust, with Rust experience strongly preferred.
- Ability to reason about large software systems, APIs, concurrency, debugging, and software architecture.
- Deep experience architecting, building, or maintaining complex robotics, aerospace, or distributed-systems simulations or digital twins.
- Expertise in time synchronization, inter-process communication, and determinism in systems-level or real-time contexts.
- Familiarity with physical modeling, kinematics, dynamics, or robotics simulation concepts.
- Passion for building enabling infrastructure and tools for faster simulation and safer deployment.
- Experience scaling simulation in CI, Hardware-in-the-Loop testing, or formal verification methods is a bonus.
- Must be eligible to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Onsite role in the Bay Area with access to flight-test and Hardware-in-the-Loop laboratories.
- Occasional travel to field sites or test ranges may be required.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off.
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.