Senior Embedded Platform Engineer

ZiplineSouth San Francisco, CA
$145,000 - $185,000

About The Position

As an Embedded Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering a computer system that enables a highly maneuverable aircraft to dodge power lines that are not on any map, avoid buildings that aren’t shown on satellite photos, stay clear of other aircraft and safely find the right open area to drop life saving supplies. This will entail conceiving and implementing methods for transporting, processing and storing high-bandwidth data across multiple processors in real-time. You will study the entire architecture, create tools and influence existing services implementation to deliver a platform that can be used reliably by all the teams and provide logging and observability necessary for a flawless operation over thousands of flight hours.

Requirements

  • Deployed real-time safety-critical systems where runtime and post-mortem analysis were equally supported
  • Experience fighting for deterministic behavior in software
  • Internalized best practices from working on a codebase with many collaborators, from continuous integration to code review
  • Experience digging into all levels of your technology stack, whether it’s the build system, the network stack, or the application layer itself
  • Experience aligning data between sensors
  • Proficient in C or C++ and Python
  • Familiar with running the Linux kernel on resource-constrained systems and with real-time requirements
  • Understands what makes code run fast or slow, and how to use multi-core or GPU hardware to make things run fast every time
  • Familiarity with the best way to get data in and out of a computer--and keep track of where it went

Nice To Haves

  • Experience developing device drivers for microprocessor peripherals
  • Familiarity with Rust

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with hardware, embedded and autonomy software teams to make the right design decisions to ensure the highest-quality embedded platform behavior, with outstanding reliability and a focus on efficiency in time, cost, and effort
  • Hold a relentlessly high bar for quality across a team that tackles a wide domain of software from acoustic signal processing to image capture
  • Set examples of best practices and processes so that algorithm developers have the tools they need to understand and optimize their designs, making sure they’re getting the most value out of the hardware onboard

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision insurance
  • paid time off
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