Zipline is looking to solve the world's most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in low level OS/linux/jetson
- Strong software engineering skills, with proficiency in at least one strongly typed language; we use Rust and C++ onboard, and Python for tooling
- Deep expertise in embedded Linux development, including experience with kernel modifications, userspace programming, and performance tuning
- Strong software architecture skills, with experience designing and shipping solutions for complex real-world use cases
- Experience shipping robotic applications to real-world customers
- Strong system mindset; able to see how the full system comes together
Responsibilities
- Integrate and own Delivery Zip runtime software: Bring up, configure, and validate new compute and sensor hardware across our autonomy stack.
- Develop system-level observability: Build logging, health monitoring, and replay tooling for post-flight analysis and validation.
- Drive reliability of software: Autonomy subsystem requires a highly reliable platform to build solutions on.
- Develop and maintain embedded software: Write robust, low-latency Rust/C++ code on embedded Linux.
- Design flight/runtime orchestration logic: Build mission state machines, behavior gating, and safe-state transitions across compute nodes under real-time constraints.
- Validate safety and performance: Use SIL/HIL and real-flight telemetry to measure deterministic behavior and prove reliability before deployment.
Other
- 3+ years of experience in delivering robotic applications to real-world customers
- Able to be in our South San Francisco offices at least 4 days per week
- Strong communication and documentation; you make complex safety decisions legible and auditable.
- Technical leadership to bring multiple stakeholders together to drive complex decisions forward
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in a relevant field (not explicitly mentioned but implied)
