Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build firmware for critical flight and safety processes running on microcontrollers alongside embedded Linux edge computers.
- Improve flight-software reliability through fault-management strategies and hardware-in-the-loop testing with hardware and systems engineers.
- Analyze in-flight avionics runtime characteristics and optimize reusable, maintainable software where needed.
- Develop metrics, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities for large-scale field deployment.
- Build data-collection and testing tools for evaluating sensors, communications systems, and microcontroller platforms.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills and proficiency in at least one strongly typed language, with C++, Rust, and Python used by the team.
- Willingness to work across embedded environments including bare metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux.
- Experience building and maintaining real-world deployed embedded systems, including handling edge cases for safety, reliability, and performance.
- Systems-level debugging ability and intuition for narrowing down potential faults.
- Fluency implementing peripheral drivers from electrical schematics and datasheets and debugging at the hardware-software boundary.
- Ability to work from the South San Francisco office on a regular basis in a hybrid in-office and distributed environment.
Benefits
- Hybrid in-office and distributed work environment centered around headquarters in South San Francisco, California, with regular office attendance required.
- Potential equity compensation, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and 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/