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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jul 20, 2026
Salary
$130,000–$230,000 a year
Full-time

Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

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, develop, and maintain HIL test infrastructure that integrates real aircraft hardware with simulated systems and environments.
  • Develop software tools, frameworks, and services to enable large-scale automated and semi-automated system validation.
  • Support a high-throughput flight test organization running thousands of daily tests, from targeted regression tests to rare off-nominal scenarios.
  • Write and maintain test software, drivers, and interfaces for embedded and Linux-based systems.
  • Support test framework architecture designs and improvements.
  • Debug complex validation failures spanning simulation, hardware, firmware, and application software
  • Collaborate with flight test engineers, systems engineers, avionics, autonomy and embedded software teams to define system-level validation strategies.
  • Improve test reliability, debuggability, and signal-to-noise as systems and test volume scale.

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