# Staff Embedded Linux Platform Engineer at Zipline

- Company: Zipline
- What the company does: Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
- Company website: https://flyzipline.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $210K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-21
- Apply by: 2026-12-05
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/8040816003?gh_jid=8040816003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-staff-embedded-linux-platform-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Flight SW

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-staff-embedded-linux-platform-engineer/