# Staff Firmware Engineer - Motors 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 $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Apply by: 2026-12-06
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/8042359003?gh_jid=8042359003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-staff-firmware-engineer-motors/

## About the role

As a Motor Control Engineer at Zipline, you’ll be responsible for shipping high-performance motor controller firmware for Zipline’s family of proprietary motor controllers. Expect to work closely with electrical engineers, structures and mechanism designers, flight software developers, and test-site operations teams. Our close-knit engineering culture presents a unique opportunity to learn from a strong multi-disciplinary team, and lets you swiftly ship features that are clearly linked to the delivery experience. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Design estimators and controllers for propulsion motors and actuators, in close collaboration with the vehicle controls team
- Implement these controllers in C++, targeting a bare-metal ARM microcontroller
- Write peripheral drivers for new revisions of Zipline’s motor controller hardware
- Get your hands dirty validating your firmware on the bench and in flight tests
- Understand and improve the reliability of the flight software system as a whole, working with hardware and systems engineers to develop comprehensive fault management strategies and hardware-in-the-loop tests
- Build vehicle simulations in Rust to validate and regression test Zipline’s firmware

Tags: Flight SW

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-staff-firmware-engineer-motors/