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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jul 28, 2026
Salary
$160,000–$250,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Linux Middleware

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

  • Own the design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft.
  • Define and evolve IPC, communications-bridge, OTA-update, logging, observability, and service-lifecycle interfaces used across flight software.
  • Deliver production Rust and C++ with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability built into each platform capability.
  • Set technical direction for cross-service platform architecture, including interface decisions and tradeoffs that affect multiple flight-software teams.
  • Partner with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure platform services operate reliably on embedded Linux aircraft systems.
  • Investigate failures across software, operating-system, network, and hardware boundaries; drive corrective changes that improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility.
  • Establish design-review and engineering practices that make services safer to deploy, easier to diagnose, and practical for downstream teams to adopt.

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