Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Middleware
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. 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 major healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants, and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and deliver 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. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. --- ### About You and 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. You will own shared platform capabilities from architecture through production delivery. Success is measured by dependable updates, diagnosable failures, stable service interfaces, and reliable integration for flight-software teams. Senior engineers lead substantial services and integrations. Staff engineers set direction across platform boundaries, resolve architectural tradeoffs, and establish standards used across the shared stack. --- ### What You’ll Do - 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 in real-world conditions.
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