Senior Embedded Middleware Architect (Linux/Rust/C++)

Zipline; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a senior staff level embedded platform engineer to own the design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of middleware services for autonomous aircraft. You will define IPC, OTA-update, logging, observability, and service-lifecycle interfaces used by flight software teams.

The role requires strong Rust and C++ skills on embedded Linux, with experience delivering reliable software in safety-critical, high-reliability environments.

Qualifications

• 5–12 years developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments.
• Experience designing technical interfaces and delivering cross-functional integrations.

Responsibilities

• Own design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of embedded middleware services.
• Define and evolve IPC, communications-bridge, OTA-update, logging, observability, and service-lifecycle interfaces.
• Deliver production Rust and C++ with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability built into each platform capability.
• Set technical direction for cross-service platform architecture across flight-software teams.
• Partner with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure platform services operate reliably on embedded Linux aircraft systems.

Skills

Rust

C++

Embedded Linux

IPC

Systems programming

Job description

Zipline is seeking a senior staff level embedded platform engineer to own the design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of middleware services for autonomous aircraft. You will define IPC, OTA-update, logging, observability, and service-lifecycle interfaces used by flight software teams.

The role requires strong Rust and C++ skills on embedded Linux, with experience delivering reliable software in safety-critical, high-reliability environments.