- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 21, 2026
- Salary
- $160,000–$220,000 a year
Software Engineer - Hardware Test
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
- Architect, develop, and deploy test software and test assets that will be used to validate components from avionics boards, sensors, instrumentation, and mechanism assemblies.
- Develop automation-centric software scripts to streamline design and production testing.
- Develop a deep understanding of components under test becoming a subject matter expert in the component’s behavior under a range of environmental, performance, and system conditions.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and external vendors to deploy high quality test systems in a timely manner to support vehicle-builds.
- Drive end-to-end test campaigns from development through design validation, certification, and production automation (often working all facets simultaneously).
- Triage and root-cause field failures, using data analysis, test heritage, correlation to operating conditions, and one-off test campaigns.
- Develop automation software scripts and visualization tools to streamline design and production testing.
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