Staff Embedded Linux Platform Engineer
About The Position
Zipline’s Embedded Platform team builds middleware and infrastructure beneath the flight software stack on embedded Linux systems. The Staff Embedded Linux Platform Engineer owns shared platform capabilities from architecture through production delivery, with success measured by dependable updates, diagnosable failures, stable service interfaces, and reliable integration for flight-software teams. At Staff scope, the engineer sets direction across platform boundaries, resolves architectural tradeoffs, and establishes standards used across the shared stack. The role covers embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft, including IPC, communications bridges, OTA updates, logging, observability, and service lifecycle. It involves delivering production Rust and C++ with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability built in, and partnering with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure services work reliably on aircraft. The engineer investigates issues across software, operating-system, network, and hardware boundaries, and improves practices so services are safer to deploy, easier to diagnose, and practical for downstream teams to adopt.
Requirements
- 10+ years developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments.
- Strong Rust, C++, or comparable systems-programming skills, with experience delivering reliable software on embedded Linux.
- Working knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, networking, IPC, and distributed or multi-process systems.
- Ability to debug complex behavior across services, operating systems, networks, and hardware.
- Experience designing technical interfaces and carrying cross-functional integrations through delivery.
- For Staff-level scope, a record of leading architecture across multiple systems and influencing decisions beyond an individual component.
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, industrial, medical, or another high-reliability domain.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization.
Responsibilities
- 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 affecting multiple flight-software teams.
- Partner with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure platform services operate reliably on embedded Linux aircraft systems.
- Investigate failures across software, operating-system, network, and hardware boundaries; drive corrective changes that improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility.
- Establish design-review and engineering practices that make services safer to deploy, easier to diagnose, and practical for downstream teams to adopt.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Equity compensation may be included.
- Discretionary annual or performance bonuses may be included.
- Sales incentives may be included.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
