Software Engineer - Systems Validation

ROLE EXPECTATIONS Zipline is seeking innovative software engineers to create the essential tools and infrastructure that support our systems validation and flight testing departments. This dynamic team is responsible for developing accurate, efficient, and scalable software solutions to validate both aircraft and ground systems across various levels. Our pro…

About ZiplineZipline stands as the globe's foremost and most experienced drone delivery service, dedicated to ensuring equitable access to essential supplies like food and medicine anytime, anywhere. We are at the forefront of designing, building, and operating the world’s largest autonomous logistics network, delivering critical goods swiftly and reliably. With operations spanning four continents, Zipline achieves a delivery every 30 seconds and has successfully completed millions of deliveries, encompassing blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail items.Our clientele includes leading healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants, and global enterprises that depend on us to save lives, mitigate emissions, enhance economic opportunities, and facilitate the fastest delivery from point A to point B. The drone constitutes only 15% of our comprehensive framework, which enables seamless and dependable global operations.Our system strengthens supply chains, alleviates congestion, and grants individuals precious time back. With over 140 million commercial autonomous miles flown safely, Zipline is revolutionizing access to healthcare, consumer products, and food worldwide.Operating at a global scale, we seek practical problem solvers who thrive in real-world challenges and swift growth. Our team is driven by the ambition to construct systems that profoundly impact lives and scale the logistics of the future. We are in search of individuals who think from first principles, relish overcoming obstacles, and can achieve the extraordinary at unprecedented speeds.

Role overview Zipline seeks a Senior Embedded Software Engineer for its Long Range Platform team in South San Francisco, California. This role centers on developing embedded software systems that enable the delivery of medical supplies to remote locations. The work plays a key part in ensuring essential healthcare reaches people who need it most. Key responsibilities Design and implement embedded software for autonomous delivery platforms Collaborate with engineering peers to create reliable, scalable solutions Contribute to projects that strengthen logistics and healthcare delivery systems Team collaboration This position partners with a skilled group of engineers, sharing expertise and advancing projects that have tangible effects on communities.

Transform the Future of Logistics with ZiplineAt Zipline, we are driven by a vision to revolutionize the way goods are delivered, ensuring that everyone has access to essential supplies, no matter where they are. Our pioneering instant delivery and logistics system is already making a significant impact, from supporting Rwanda's blood delivery network to facilitating Ghana's COVID-19 vaccine distribution. By leveraging advanced robotics and autonomous technology, we are committed to reducing carbon emissions, alleviating road congestion, and improving air quality while enhancing the global supply chain's resilience. Join our mission to create a fair and sustainable logistics solution for billions around the globe.

About ZiplineAre you ready to make a significant impact? At Zipline, we harness the power of drones to deliver essential and life-saving medical supplies to hospitals across various countries, reaching millions of people. Our mission is clear: to ensure that every person on Earth has immediate access to vital medical resources. Join us in transforming this ambition into reality for billions.About You and the RoleIf you have a passion for analyzing raw data from GNSS receivers and integrating it with IMU, camera, and ground-station data into a resilient state estimator, this position is an excellent fit for you to showcase your expertise and creativity.Our vehicles operate globally, requiring reliability across all weather conditions and resilience against sensor failures. We are developing a system capable of navigating diverse geographic environments without relying on high-definition maps. Our commitment is to enhance our systems continuously, ensuring that we never face the same issue twice.You will be challenged to expand your skills and experiment with innovative filtering and measurement techniques. Your role will involve designing systems to collect data from every mission, allowing us to verify performance and troubleshoot effectively.What You'll DoMaximize the potential of our GNSS hardware by integrating data from our ground station network, while also creating resilient systems that maintain accuracy during extended communication outages.Develop systems to manage intermittent GNSS availability, enabling our vehicles to utilize both GNSS and visual data while addressing failures in either at any moment.Conduct trade studies to evaluate the impact of new sensors or processing methods on vehicle performance and reliability.Assess system performance through simulations and real-world vehicle data to identify and improve underperforming components.

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Embedded Firmware Software Engineer Job Overview Are you ready to make a significant impact on global logistics? Zipline is leading a revolution in delivery systems, tackling the world’s most pressing access challenges. Our innovative approach aims to provide equitable delivery solutions for everyone, no matter where they are. From facilitating Rwanda’s blood supply network to delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana, our technology is transforming logistics for health care providers and businesses alike. Join us in creating a teleportation service that ensures timely access to essential goods while reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability. At Zipline, we’re committed to building a resilient global supply chain that benefits billions. Be part of a team that is dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technology to change lives. Your Role and Responsibilities As an Embedded Firmware Software Engineer, you will develop critical, safety-oriented software for our aircraft. You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, embedded Linux, and systems engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of our aircraft into the largest drone delivery network worldwide. Your expertise in C++, along with skills in Rust and Python, will enable you to enhance our firmware infrastructure, improving system observability and reliability without necessitating proportional increases in engineering resources. Key Responsibilities: Design and implement software for essential flight and safety functions across a network of microcontrollers, collaborating with embedded Linux edge computing systems. Enhance the reliability of the flight software system by working closely with hardware and systems engineers.

About Zipline Are you ready to make a significant impact? Zipline is dedicated to revolutionizing the delivery of goods across the globe. Our mission is to tackle the most pressing access challenges by creating the first instant delivery and logistics system that ensures equal service to all individuals, regardless of their location. From facilitating Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and aiding Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution to offering on-demand home deliveries for Walmart and enabling healthcare providers to deliver care right to homes in the U.S., we are reshaping logistics for businesses, governments, and consumers alike. Our technology, while intricate, is driven by a straightforward vision: to provide an instantaneous delivery service that brings what you need, when you need it. By leveraging advanced robotics and autonomy, we are not only decarbonizing logistics but also alleviating road congestion and minimizing fossil fuel use and air pollution, while ensuring equitable access for billions and fostering a more robust global supply chain. About You & the Role You will take ownership of the flight-critical runtime that maintains the safety of Zipline's aircraft, regardless of external challenges. You’ll design and implement the autonomy safety layer responsible for mission orchestration, fault detection and diagnosis, as well as executing mitigation and recovery strategies across planning, perception, and controls. This position involves deep systems work in Rust/C++ under stringent real-time constraints, requiring high-stakes design decisions that are validated through SIL/HIL and flight logs, elevating the reliability of a global, safety-critical fleet. What You’ll Do Design the mission/flight manager: Develop state machines and orchestration logic that dictate mission sequencing, safe-state transitions, and behavior gating under various constraints. Own fault management end-to-end: Implement detection, isolation, mitigation, and recovery (FIMR) strategies for sensors, compute, communications, power, and actuation systems; ensure graceful degradation and service continuity. Ship flight-critical Rust/C++ code: Create and maintain essential onboard components with robust observability (health, logs, metrics) and testability (deterministic replay, assertions, invariants). Prove safety prior to flight: Define success criteria and develop tools—including scenario libraries, SIL/HIL, log-replay harnesses, and fault injection—to validate behavior across edge cases and long-tail scenarios. Integrate across autonomy domains: Collaborate with planning, perception, and controls teams to establish interfaces, hazards, and assumptions necessary for seamless operation.

About ZiplineZipline is the global leader in drone delivery services, committed to providing equitable access to essentials like food, medicine, and critical goods anytime, anywhere. We are pioneers in designing, building, and operating the largest autonomous logistics system, facilitating rapid and reliable delivery of essential supplies. With operations on four continents and a delivery made every 30 seconds, Zipline has successfully completed millions of deliveries, including life-saving medical supplies, food, and retail products.Our esteemed clients include leading healthcare systems, government bodies, major retailers, and global enterprises that rely on our innovative solutions to save lives, decrease emissions, and enhance economic opportunities with unmatched speed and reliability.By optimizing supply chains and alleviating congestion, our services empower individuals with more time while redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food globally. At Zipline, we seek practical problem solvers who thrive on tackling real-world challenges and scaling logistics for the future. Our team is driven by the ambition to create systems that significantly impact lives, encouraging creativity and resilience in the face of adversity.ROLE EXPECTATIONSAs a Software Systems Validation Engineer, you'll spearhead the comprehensive evaluation of Zipline's state-of-the-art autonomous drone delivery system. This role encompasses various domains such as sensor drivers, perception, navigation, guidance and control, motion planning, power management, and actuator control.In this capacity, you will develop tools, metrics, and visualizations to illuminate capability enhancements, identify gaps, and track regressions, thereby expediting engineering decisions for large-scale deployments and expanding operational domains. Your responsibilities may also include assessing aircraft performance, delivery operations, docking systems, and fleet orchestration.You will be instrumental in continuously refining validation practices, pinpointing areas for improvement in tools, methodologies, and processes to boost validation coverage, efficiency, and precision, all while sustaining high development and deployment velocity. Collaboration will be key as you work closely with our embedded and autonomy software teams, systems engineering, data platform, and test infrastructure teams to ensure optimal software performance.

About You and the Role Zipline is pioneering the world’s largest autonomous logistics network, responsible for delivering critical medical and commercial supplies worldwide. As we expand our operations into increasingly complex and safety-sensitive environments, validating and demonstrating our autonomy performance at scale becomes paramount. We are in search of a highly skilled software engineer to join our Autonomy Validation team—a vital group dedicated to developing the infrastructure, tools, and frameworks necessary for software validation across the entire Autonomy division. This encompasses planning, perception, control, and the decision-making logic that drives our self-flying aircraft. Our autonomy stack is uniquely custom-built. While this provides us with unparalleled control and performance, it also necessitates the creation of tailored validation tools, as standard testing solutions are insufficient. In this position, you will be responsible for developing robust internal platforms for validation, enabling extensive simulations and rigorous scenario testing, thus ensuring that autonomy engineers can operate with confidence. This role is not focused on quality assurance; instead, it represents a foundational software engineering position that will significantly influence our approach to testing, verifying, and safely deploying autonomy on a global scale. What You'll Do Develop and maintain the infrastructure for validating autonomous features and system performance across planning, perception, and control. Design and create simulation tools and scenario generation for extensive, high-fidelity testing of autonomy in both real-world and edge-case scenarios. Build custom tools for the validation and testing of autonomy components that integrate seamlessly into our internal development stack. Create scalable, dependable, and automated solutions for executing, tracking, and analyzing thousands of validation tasks within the autonomy organization. Engage collaboratively with: Autonomy engineers, to assess how system behaviors should be evaluated. Systems and data engineers, to ensure metrics, safety thresholds, and requirements are codified in our testing infrastructure. Flight test and QA teams, to connect real-world results back into testing tools and continuous integration loops. Establish best practices for software release validation, ensuring our autonomy stack is safe, measurable, and production-ready. Contribute to internal documentation, standards, and validation workflows that can scale across the autonomy organization.

Zipline is hiring an Autonomy Software Engineer to focus on validation tools at its South San Francisco office. This position plays a key role in building and validating software that underpins the autonomous functions of Zipline's delivery drones. The work has a direct impact on the reliability and performance of drone operations in real-world settings. Responsibilities Create and enhance validation tools for autonomous drone systems Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to raise software quality Tackle complex technical issues that affect drone autonomy Contribute to the dependability and efficiency of field operations Location This role is based in South San Francisco, California, USA.

About ZiplineAre you ready to make a global impact? Zipline is on a transformative mission to revolutionize logistics and delivery systems. We aim to address some of the world's most pressing access issues by designing, manufacturing, and operating an instant delivery network that serves everyone, everywhere. From enhancing Rwanda's national blood delivery network and facilitating Ghana's COVID-19 vaccine distribution to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, we are changing the landscape of logistics for businesses, governments, and consumers alike. Our technology may be complex, but our vision is straightforward: a teleportation service that ensures you receive what you need, precisely when you need it. By leveraging robotics and autonomy, we're committed to decarbonizing delivery, alleviating road congestion, and minimizing fossil fuel usage and air pollution, while promoting equitable access for billions and constructing a more resilient global supply chain. Join Zipline and be part of our commitment to establishing a fair and resilient global supply chain for billions.

About ZiplineZipline stands as the world's leading drone delivery service, committed to providing equitable access to food, medicine, and essential goods globally, at any time. We design, develop, and operate the largest autonomous logistics system, ensuring swift and reliable delivery of critical supplies. Currently, Zipline operates across four continents, achieving a delivery approximately every 30 seconds and has successfully completed millions of deliveries of vital items such as blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.Our clientele includes some of the largest and most renowned healthcare systems, government entities, retailers, restaurants, and global businesses that depend on us to save lives, minimize emissions, amplify economic opportunities, and facilitate rapid point-to-point delivery. The drone is merely 15% of what we have constructed to support seamless and dependable global operations.Our innovative system reinforces supply chains, alleviates congestion, and restores valuable time to individuals. With over 140 million commercial autonomous miles flown safely, Zipline is transforming access to healthcare, consumer products, and food worldwide.Operating at an international scale, we are in search of practical problem solvers who excel in facing real-world challenges and adapting to rapid growth. Our team is driven by the desire to create systems that directly and significantly impact lives while scaling the future of logistics. We seek individuals who work from fundamental principles, thrive in adversity, and can achieve remarkable feats at unprecedented speeds.

Join Veracyte, a leader in cancer diagnostics, as we empower healthcare professionals and transform patient care worldwide. At Veracyte, our innovative team is dedicated to making a profound impact on the lives of cancer patients while fostering an environment of growth and learning. We embody the Veracyte way, a collaborative approach that values insights and promotes life-changing decisions for patients.Our Core Values:Innovate for a Better Future: We pursue groundbreaking innovations and learn from challenges to advance cancer care.Deliver with Purpose: We act swiftly, uphold high-quality standards, and find joy in our hard work.Collaborate for Success: We engage in open communication, strive for understanding, and celebrate our achievements together.Cultivate a Caring Culture: We embrace diversity, uphold ethical practices, and support one another.Position Overview:We are looking for a passionate Software Development Engineer who excels in front-end development, interaction design, and software craftsmanship. In this role, you will create intuitive, high-performance, and scalable user experiences. You will be responsible for developing high-quality interfaces and supporting services, ensuring that our products are both technically sound and user-friendly.

Software Engineer for Delivery Network Platform At Zipline, we are revolutionizing logistics by developing the operating system for an autonomous delivery network. The Delivery Network Platform team is responsible for constructing the essential systems that ensure our aircraft, sites, and infrastructure are primed for live delivery operations. Our mission is to develop the software that operators utilize to monitor and manage the network in real-time, the orchestration systems that maneuver the fleet, and the validation platforms that guarantee the network functions correctly as it scales and becomes more complex. Your Responsibilities In this role, you will manage software that is pivotal to our fleet operations, including: Development of Network Operating Center software for real-time operational insight and intervention across our aircraft, sites, missions, weather, and demand. Creation of fleet orchestration systems for assignment, routing, scheduling, and rebalancing. Maintenance and asset health systems linking issue detection to return-to-service protocols. Simulation and validation platforms to assess topology, load, and policy changes prior to production deployment. Development of platform interfaces and configurable control planes that enable other teams to safely extend the network. Challenges and Ownership Unlike typical software roles that focus on digital optimization, this position is integral to the operation of a live autonomous logistics network. You will tackle substantial challenges such as: Ensuring a dependable real-time view of aircraft and critical site assets throughout the network. Maintaining network flow amidst demand fluctuations, weather changes, infrastructure issues, or capacity constraints. Designing operator control interfaces that facilitate swift and accurate decision-making under pressure. Simulating potential network behaviors to mitigate risks before production implementation. This role involves ownership of critical platform components, allowing you to make influential technical and product decisions that affect network performance. Our Work Culture Our team values high ownership, trust, and technical excellence. Engineers are encouraged to identify significant challenges, articulate a vision for system functionality, and lead solutions from inception to deployment. We also expect our engineers to leverage AI tools effectively to enhance productivity during exploration, implementation, and debugging, while upholding strong engineering standards, judgment, and accountability.

About ZiplineAre you ready to make a significant impact? Zipline is on a transformative mission to revolutionize logistics and delivery systems across the globe. We are dedicated to addressing the most pressing access challenges by developing the first instant delivery and logistics network that serves everyone equally, no matter where they are. From supporting Rwanda's national blood delivery system and Ghana's COVID-19 vaccine distribution to facilitating on-demand home deliveries for Walmart, we are changing how goods are transported for businesses, governments, and consumers alike.The technology we utilize is intricate, yet our goal is straightforward: to create a teleportation service that delivers essentials precisely when needed. Our robotics and autonomous systems are designed to reduce carbon emissions, alleviate road congestion, and minimize fossil fuel dependency while ensuring equitable access for billions of people and strengthening the global supply chain. Join Zipline and contribute to our vision of establishing a fair and robust global supply chain for billions worldwide.About You and The RoleAs a key member of Zipline’s Flight Controls team, you will play a pivotal role in modeling, developing, and testing critical flight software systems that empower our vehicles to deliver autonomously. Our team excels at innovating solutions that allow our delivery platforms to operate seamlessly in diverse and increasingly challenging environments, ensuring equitable service to all. You will leverage a variety of analytical techniques to assess system performance and understand how design decisions impact capabilities and requirements. Collaboration across teams will be essential as you drive enhancements to our products using data derived from flight testing and our extensive fleet of customer aircraft. By engaging closely with our customers, you will gather insights to identify improvements and prioritize our next growth phases. Your success directly influences the operational effectiveness of our logistics network.

Join Zipline in Revolutionizing DeliveryAre you ready to make a difference? At Zipline, we are on a mission to redefine logistics and access to goods globally. Our innovative approach tackles some of the world’s most pressing challenges by developing an instant delivery and logistics system that is accessible to everyone, regardless of their location. From facilitating blood deliveries in Rwanda to distributing COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana, and providing essential products to U.S. homes, we're transforming the logistics landscape for businesses, governments, and individuals alike.Our technology may be complex, but the concept is straightforward: a teleportation service that ensures timely delivery of essential items. By leveraging robotics and autonomous systems, we are not only decarbonizing delivery but also mitigating road traffic, cutting down on fossil fuel usage, and enhancing air quality. Join us in our quest to create a more equitable and robust global supply chain for billions around the world.

About Zipline Are you ready to make a significant impact? Zipline is committed to revolutionizing the logistics landscape. Our mission is to tackle the world's most pressing access challenges by creating, manufacturing, and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that caters to all individuals, regardless of their location. From powering Rwanda's national blood delivery network and facilitating Ghana's COVID-19 vaccine distribution to enabling Walmart's on-demand home delivery, we are reshaping the movement of goods for businesses, governments, and consumers alike. Our technology may be intricate, but our vision is straightforward: a teleportation service that delivers essential items promptly. Through our innovative use of robotics and autonomous systems, we are not only decarbonizing deliveries but also alleviating road congestion, reducing fossil fuel usage, and combating air pollution, all while ensuring equitable access for billions and strengthening the global supply chain. About You and The Role Are you excited by the challenge of developing large, integrated electro-mechanical systems—from initial engineering builds to full-scale production and worldwide deployment? Do you thrive on tackling tasks that others deem too difficult or impossible? Are you the engineer everyone turns to for insights on building and scaling unprecedented projects? At Zipline, our work has real-world implications. Families and patients depend on us daily, and there is no margin for error. If you are passionate about leveraging your engineering skills to devise efficient and innovative manufacturing solutions, we encourage you to continue reading. We are in search of a highly skilled and proactive Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will be tasked with designing and scaling multiple in-house final assembly lines for our aircraft, zips, docks, and various essential feeder sub-assemblies. You will ensure these lines meet escalating demand—from tens of units weekly to hundreds over the next three years—while continuously reducing costs and enhancing product quality. If you excel in fast-paced environments, enjoy managing multiple new developments simultaneously, and can swiftly align teams towards solutions, we would love to connect with you.

Lightship is hiring a Senior Engineering Technician at its South San Francisco facility. This position plays a key part in supporting the design, development, and testing of engineering projects, working closely with engineers to guide ideas from concept to completion. A hands-on approach and technical know-how are essential for keeping projects on schedule and meeting goals. Key responsibilities Support engineering design, development, and testing tasks Collaborate with engineers to address technical challenges as they arise Contribute to maintaining quality and performance standards throughout project phases What we look for Proactive approach and strong problem-solving abilities Genuine enthusiasm for engineering and technology Background in supporting engineering projects from initial stages through completion