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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Sep 9, 2026
Salary
$160,000–$250,000 a year
Full-time

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Job description

Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who…

Job responsibilities

  • Design and build C++ firmware for a distributed system of aircraft microcontrollers.
  • Develop reliable Ethernet, serial, and other microcontroller communication interfaces.
  • Define platform-level interfaces and reusable firmware components that support multiple aircraft subsystems.
  • Own the predictable and reliable performance of our microcontroller systems and the communication buses that connect them, across startup, real-time operation, fault handling, and recovery.
  • Optimize real-time behavior, including CPU utilization, memory usage, scheduling latency, timing jitter, and resource contention
  • Develop metrics, monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to prepare the system for field deployment at scale
  • Develop Rust-based tooling and software-in-the-loop simulations to test and validate firmware behavior.
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