Staff Embedded Linux Platform Architect

Telemetry Today LLC; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Discretionary bonuses

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service seeking a Senior/Staff Embedded Platform Engineer to own platform capabilities for the flight software stack on embedded Linux.

You will design, implement, and deliver middleware services, IPC, OTA updates, logging, and observability, partnering with flight‑software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure reliability and safety across aircraft systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft.
• Define and evolve IPC, communications‑bridge, OTA‑update, logging, observability, and service‑lifecycle interfaces used across flight software.
• Deliver production Rust and C++ with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability built into each platform capability.
• Set technical direction for cross‑service platform architecture, including interface decisions and tradeoffs that affect multiple flight‑software teams.
• Partner with flight‑software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure platform services operate reliably on embedded Linux aircraft systems.
• Investigate failures across software, operating‑system, network, and hardware boundaries; drive corrective changes that improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility.
• Establish design‑review and engineering practices that make services safer to deploy, easier to diagnose, and practical for downstream teams to adopt.

Skills

Rust

C++

Embedded Linux

IPC

Concurrency

Diagnostics

Tools

Git

Linux

Job description

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service seeking a Senior/Staff Embedded Platform Engineer to own platform capabilities for the flight software stack on embedded Linux.

You will design, implement, and deliver middleware services, IPC, OTA updates, logging, and observability, partnering with flight‑software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure reliability and safety across aircraft systems.