Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
About the role
Autonomous aircraft need onboard software that communicates, updates, reports health, and recovers predictably in safety-critical environments. The Embedded Platform team builds the middleware and infrastructure beneath the flight software stack on embedded Linux systems. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. 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.
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.
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