Senior Software Systems Validation Engineer

Zipline is seeking a Senior Software Systems Validation Engineer to lead end-to-end software evaluation of their autonomous drone delivery system, spanning various domains including sensor drivers, perception, navigation, and more. The role involves building tools, metrics, and visualizations to improve software validation, collaboration with engineering teams, and ensuring high development and deployment velocity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of Software Development, Software Systems Engineering or Software Validation experience working with robotic systems.
• Experience developing nominal, adversarial, stress and edge case testing for robotics applications.
• Experience working with large data sets in production pipelines
• Experience root causing failures in complex, autonomous, robotic systems.
• Proficiency in scripting (python, sql) and programming languages for safety critical applications (MISRA C, Rust, C++).

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Overtime pay
• Equity compensation
• Sales incentives