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 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/