Zipline International Inc.
Staff Embedded Linux Platform Engineer
South San Francisco, California, USA · Staff+
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$11,187 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service.
- Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
- The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft.
- Deliver production Rust and C++ with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability built into each platform capability.
- Partner with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure platform services operate reliably on embedded Linux aircraft systems.
- 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.
- 10+ years developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments.
- Investigate failures across software, operating-system, network, and hardware boundaries; drive corrective changes that improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility.
- We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably.
- Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics.
- The Embedded Platform team builds the middleware and infrastructure beneath the flight software stack on embedded Linux systems.
Requirements
- Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role.
- If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
Compensation
- The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
Benefits
- With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
- Autonomous aircraft need onboard software that communicates, updates, reports health, and recovers predictably in safety-critical environments.
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, industrial, medical, or another high-reliability domain; autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization are relevant.
Company info
- We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere.
- We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
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