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Staff Embedded Linux Platform Engineer in USA

  • Zipline
  • Full time
  • Email
  • South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • 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 for flight software.
  • Deliver production Rust and C++ software with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability built in.
  • Set technical direction for cross-service platform architecture and resolve tradeoffs affecting multiple flight-software teams.
  • Partner with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to operate platform services reliably on embedded Linux aircraft systems.
  • Investigate failures across software, operating-system, network, and hardware boundaries and drive reliability improvements.
  • Establish design-review and engineering practices that make services safer to deploy and easier to diagnose.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments.
  • Strong Rust, C++, or comparable systems-programming skills and experience delivering reliable software on embedded Linux.
  • Working knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, networking, IPC, and distributed or multi-process systems.
  • Ability to debug complex behavior across services, operating systems, networks, and hardware.
  • Experience designing technical interfaces and carrying cross-functional integrations through delivery.
  • Staff-level candidates should have led architecture across multiple systems and influenced decisions beyond an individual component.
  • Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, industrial, medical, or another high-reliability domain is relevant; autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization are valued.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Paid time off.
  • Potential equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.
  • The final cash pay depends on experience, qualifications, skills, location, and projected impact.

Salary: $210k - $260k/yr

Zipline

Zipline is redefining logistics with its instant delivery system that addresses urgent access challenges for a diverse range of customers, including governments and businesses. By leveraging advanced technology like robotics and autonomy, Zipline ensures equitable access to essential goods, wheth...

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