Staff Software Engineer Embedded Linux

Staff Software Engineer Embedded Linux

About Zipline

Do you want to change the world Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the worlds most urgent and complex access challenges by building manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally wherever they are. From powering Rwandas national blood delivery network and Ghanas COVID19 vaccine distribution to providing ondemand home delivery for Walmart to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes we are transforming the way things move for businesses governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy we are decarbonizing delivery decreasing road congestion and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.

Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people.

About the Role

As a Linux Software Engineer at Zipline youll build and maintain our Yoctobased Linux kernel BSP powering our flight computers enabling our highly autonomous aircraft to safely fly over millions of homes dayin and dayout. You will work closely with other Linux experts on this team. You will also work closely with software engineers who build userspace applications and drivers. This job also spans the entire development lifecycle working with the Release team owning validation and analyzing performance from realworld flight tests.

Our technical stack is built on embedded Linux running on three desktopgrade computers with a distributed network of sensors redundant communication links and actuators. We are looking for detailoriented engineers with deep expertise in embedded Linux and distributed systems including kernel development userspace tooling realtime performance tuning system reliability and core operating systems activities.

What Youll Do

• Design and build the software architecture necessary to run everything from critical flight software to interconnected groundbased hardware on embedded Linux systems
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our custom Linux distribution on Yocto ensuring a reliable and performant foundation for our flight and groundbased systems
• Analyze the runtime characteristics of our Linuxbased avionics software in flight to build confidence in its performance with a focus on system reliability maintainability and optimization
• Develop and optimize kernel and userspace drivers for production and prototype sensors and refine sensor data APIs for perception navigation and other autonomy software engineers
• Develop metrics monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to prepare the system for field deployment at scale
• Design and build data collection and testing tools to support earlystage evaluation of new sensors communications systems and edge compute platforms

What Youll Bring

• Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in at least one strongly typed language; we use Rust and C onboard and Python for tooling
• Deep expertise in embedded Linux development including experience with kernel modifications userspace programming and performance tuning
• Experience working with Yocto or other build systems for custom Linux distributions
• Strong software architecture skills with experience designing and shipping solutions for complex realworld use cases
• A systemsoriented mindset with a focus on reliability fault tolerance and performance optimization
• Technical leadership skills and experience owning large technical systems that other engineers contribute to
• Detailoriented mindset to think through validating a systems safety