Autonomy Software Engineer, Validation Tools
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Job Location:
South San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 150000 - 200000
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About You and the Role
Zipline is building the worlds largest autonomous logistics system delivering vital medical and commercial supplies across the globe. As we scale our operations and extend into more complex safety-critical environments the ability to validate and prove our autonomy performance at scale becomes absolutely essential.
Were looking for a deeply technical software engineer to join the Autonomy Validation team a core team responsible for building the infrastructure tools and frameworks that support software validation across the entire Autonomy organization. This includes planning perception control and all of the decision-making logic that powers our self-flying aircraft.
Our autonomy stack is highly custom-built and while that gives us unmatched control and performance it also means standard out-of-the-box testing tools dont this role youll take ownership of developing robust internal platforms for validation enabling both simulation at scale and rigorous scenario testing so that autonomy engineers can ship with confidence.
This is not a QA role. Its a foundational software engineering position building critical systems that will directly shape how we test verify and deploy autonomy safely around the world.
What Youll Do
- Build and own the infrastructure for validating autonomous features and system performance across planning perception and control.
- Design and develop simulation tools and scenario generation for large-scale and high-fidelity testing of autonomy under real-world and edge-case conditions.
- Develop custom tools for validation and testing of autonomy components that plug into our internal autonomy development stack.
- Create scalable reliable and automated solutions for running tracking and analyzing thousands of validation tasks across autonomy org.
- Collaborate deeply with:
- Autonomy engineers to understand how system behavior should be evaluated.
- Systems and data engineers to ensure metrics safety thresholds and requirements are codified in test infrastructure.
- Flight test and QA teams to connect real-world results back into test tools and CI loops.
- Establish best practices for software release validation helping ensure our autonomy stack is safe measurable and production-ready.
- Contribute to internal docs standards and validation workflows that scale across the autonomy organization.
What Youll Bring
- 5 years of experience building systems for testing simulation or safety validation ideally in autonomy aerospace robotics or other real-time safety-critical environments.
- A strong software engineering foundation including fluency in C Rust C or C#.
- Experience with custom simulation tools game engines or scenario generation frameworks.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure containers and distributed execution pipelines (e.g. Docker Kubernetes AWS).
A track record of building tools or platforms used by other engineers infrastructure that enables teams to move fast while maintaining safety and quality.
What Else You Need to Know
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Python
- SOC
- Debugging
- C/C++
- FDA Regulations
- Minitab
- Technical Writing
- GAMP
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- cGMP
- Manufacturing
About Company
Zipline is the world's largest autonomous delivery system, specializing in on-demand drone delivery and instant logistics.
