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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jul 7, 2025
Salary
$155,000–$225,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Software Engineer - Motor Controls

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 estimators and controllers for propulsion motors and actuators, in close collaboration with the vehicle controls team.
  • Implement these controllers in C++, targeting a bare-metal ARM microcontroller.
  • Write peripheral drivers for new revisions of Zipline’s motor controller hardware.
  • Get your hands dirty validating your firmware on the bench and in flight tests.
  • Understand and improve the reliability of the flight software system as a whole, working with hardware and systems engineers to develop comprehensive fault management strategies and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
  • Build vehicle simulations in Rust to validate and regression test Zipline’s firmware.
  • Collaborate with electrical engineers to bring-up and validate new inverter designs.
  • Build and maintain automated systems to monitor the performance of our fleet and direct maintenance activity.
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