Zipline
Senior Embedded Linux Platform Engineer
$160K–$250K
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5–12 years developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments.
About the job
Own and deliver embedded Linux middleware and platform services that support reliable, diagnosable operation of autonomous aircraft flight software.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, validate, and maintain embedded middleware services and shared interfaces for communications, updates, logging, observability, and service lifecycle.
- Set cross-service platform architecture and deliver production Rust and C++ with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability.
- Partner with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to debug failures and improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility.
What they ask for
- Strong Rust, C++, or comparable systems-programming skills and experience delivering reliable software on embedded Linux.
- Working knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, networking, IPC, and distributed or multi-process systems.
- Ability to debug across services, operating systems, networks, and hardware; experience designing interfaces and delivering cross-functional integrations.
- For Staff-level scope, a record of leading architecture across multiple systems and influencing decisions beyond an individual component.
Nice to have
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, industrial, medical, or another high-reliability domain.
- Relevant experience in autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization.
Pay
$160,000 - $250,000 USD starting cash; $160,000 - $190,000 USD starting cash (Software Engineer II); $190,000 - $220,000 USD starting cash (Senior Software Engineer); $220,000 - $250,000 USD starting cash (Staff Software Engineer)
Tools
Rust, C++, embedded Linux
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