Lead Embedded Validation Engineer – Avionics

Zipline; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Validation Engineer to lead validation for avionics software, including the flight computer and peripherals, ensuring deterministic and safe execution.

Responsibilities include designing validation strategies, creating nominal and stress test scenarios from simulation to flight tests, and building automatic validation infrastructure to support rapid development velocity while maintaining safety and performance standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development, software systems engineering, or software validation experience with robotic systems.
• Experience deriving software safety or performance requirements from functional safety decompositions.
• Proficiency with Rust or other safety-critical languages such as MISRA C or C++.

Responsibilities

• Lead validation strategy and execution for avionics components, including flight computer and peripherals.
• Design, implement, and execute nominal, stress, and edge-case scenarios from simulation through full-system flight testing.
• Develop and maintain hardware test infrastructure to meet objectives.
• Build metrics, visualizations, and real-time performance and safety monitors to reveal capability changes.
• Set validation evidence and exit criteria informing release and deployment decisions.
• Debug failures across simulation, hardware, firmware, embedded software, and application software; escalate safety or performance risks.

Skills

Embedded Linux

Rust / safety-critical languages

C++ / MISRA C

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Zipline is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Validation Engineer to lead validation for avionics software, including the flight computer and peripherals, ensuring deterministic and safe execution.

Responsibilities include designing validation strategies, creating nominal and stress test scenarios from simulation to flight tests, and building automatic validation infrastructure to support rapid development velocity while maintaining safety and performance standards.