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
- 3+ years of experience in delivering robotic applications to real-world customers.
- 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
- Strong communication and documentation; you make complex safety decisions legible and auditable.
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
- This is an in-office role. We are looking for folks who can be in our South San Francisco offices at least 4 days per week.
- Able to bridge the gap between HW and SW, to ensure a robust system.
- Technical leadership to bring multiple stakeholders together to drive complex decisions forward.
- Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.
- We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.
