Senior Embedded Software Validation Engineer (Avionics Software)

Join Zipline, a leader in autonomous drone delivery systems. As a Senior Embedded Software Validation Engineer, you will lead the validation strategy and execution for avionics components, ensuring reliable and deterministic software execution. Your work will be crucial in gathering evidence of capability gains, gaps, regressions, and safety risks, serving as the foundation for confidently shipping software releases. You will develop and maintain hardware test infrastructure, build metrics and visualizations, and debug failures across various systems. This role requires 5+ years of experience in software development, systems engineering, or validation, with a focus on robotic systems.

• Lead validation strategy and execution for avionics components, ensuring reliable and deterministic software execution.
• Develop and maintain hardware test infrastructure, design and implement validation scenarios, and build metrics and visualizations.
• Collaborate with test infrastructure teams to increase automated validation coverage and improve confidence in rapid development velocity.

• Experience root-causing failures in complex autonomous systems
• Familiarity with other programming and query languages such as Python and SQL
• 5+ years of software development, software systems engineering, or software validation experience with robotic systems
• Experience developing validation strategies for autonomous robotics
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Experience deriving software safety or performance requirements from functional safety requirements or similar requirements decompositions
• Proficiency with Rust or other programming languages used in safety-critical applications such as MISRA C, or C++
• Strong experience in one or more relevant domains: Embedded Linux, PREEMPT_RT, firmware / RTOS, safety-critical systems, 802.11, Ethernet