Zipline
Staff Embedded Linux Platform Engineer
$210K–$260K
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years; no alternative stated.
About the job
Owns the architecture, development, and production lifecycle of embedded Linux middleware and platform services for autonomous aircraft.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, validate, and maintain embedded middleware 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.
- Debug failures across software, operating systems, networks, and hardware; collaborate with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to improve reliability.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Experience designing technical interfaces and delivering cross-functional integrations; Staff scope requires architectural leadership across multiple systems.
Nice to have
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, industrial, medical, or another high-reliability domain.
- Experience with autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization.
Pay
$210,000 - $260,000 USD starting cash range
Tools
Rust, C++, embedded Linux
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