Embedded Software Engineer, Validation
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
About this role
### About Zipline Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We’re 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. Zipline operates on four continents and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. --- ### About You and The Role Zipline is seeking an **Embedded Software Engineer (Validation)** to build automated validation systems that ensure the reliability of the embedded platform powering autonomous aircraft in safety-critical environments. This role sits within the **Embedded Platform** team, which develops foundational middleware and infrastructure used throughout the flight software stack. The platform provides capabilities including: - Interprocess communication (IPC) - Logging and observability - Communication bridges - Over-the-air (OTA) software updates - Live telemetry between aircraft and cloud services As an **Embedded Software Validation Engineer**, you will design and build the **simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)** infrastructure used to validate these platform services. You’ll work closely with software engineers across the Flight Software organization to develop comprehensive automated test scenarios that verify functionality, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance before software reaches an aircraft. > This is a software engineering role focused on building scalable validation infrastructure—not manual testing. --- ### What You’ll Do - Design, implement, and maintain automated validation infrastructure for embedded platform software - Build simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test environments that exercise platform services under realistic operating conditions - Develop automated test scenarios covering core platform capabilities (details continue in the original posting)
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