Senior Autonomy Validation Engineer - Simulation & Tools

Zipline; Ann Arbor (MI); Presencial; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Equity compensation

Bonuses (discretionary annual or perf)

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Resumo da oferta

Zipline is seeking a deeply technical software engineer to join the Autonomy Validation team, building the infrastructure, tools, and frameworks that enable software validation across planning, perception, and control for safe, scalable autonomous flight.

You will create robust internal platforms for validation, supporting both large‑scale simulation and rigorous scenario testing to help autonomy engineers ship with confidence.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of experience building software systems for simulation, testing, or safety validation in robotics, autonomy, aerospace, or other real‑time, safety‑critical domains.
• Proficiency in C++, Rust, or C; Python is a plus for tooling.
• Hands‑on experience building or working with simulation systems for robotics or autonomous systems, particularly for testing or validation.
• Experience building tools, platforms, or infrastructure used by other engineers.
• Understanding of validation methodologies, including defining metrics, evaluating system behavior, and testing complex electromechanical systems.

Responsabilidades

• Build and own the infrastructure for validating autonomous features and system performance across planning, perception, and control.
• Design and develop simulation tools and scenario generation for large‑scale and high‑fidelity testing of autonomy under real‑world and edge‑case conditions.
• Develop custom tools for validation and testing of autonomy components that plug into our internal autonomy development stack.
• Create scalable, reliable, and automated solutions for running, tracking, and analyzing thousands of validation tasks across autonomy org.
• Collaborate deeply with Autonomy engineers, Systems and data engineers, Flight test and QA teams to connect real‑world results back into test tools and CI loops.
• Establish best practices for software release validation, helping ensure our autonomy stack is safe, measurable, and production‑ready.
• Contribute to internal docs, standards, and validation workflows that scale across the autonomy organization.
• Define validation methodologies and metrics, determining how new autonomy features should be evaluated and measured in simulation

Conhecimentos

C++

Rust

C

Simulation tools

Validation tooling

Python scripting

Autonomy testing

Ferramentas

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Simulation frameworks

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Zipline is seeking a deeply technical software engineer to join the Autonomy Validation team, building the infrastructure, tools, and frameworks that enable software validation across planning, perception, and control for safe, scalable autonomous flight.

You will create robust internal platforms for validation, supporting both large‑scale simulation and rigorous scenario testing to help autonomy engineers ship with confidence.