Staff Avionics Embedded Software Engineer (Flight-Critical)

Zipline in San Francisco is seeking an experienced software engineer to build flight-critical embedded systems. You will own avionics subsystems and deliver deterministic code in C++ or Rust on embedded Linux, with safety-focused validation and field diagnostics.

You’ll work across hardware-in-the-loop tests, real-time interfaces, and production deployments, partnering with hardware, systems, and operations to improve reliability, observability, and fleet performance.