Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Middleware
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
Posted about 3 months ago · $160,000 - $250,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Zipline 's roles stay open a median of 78 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 51% of Zipline 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Zipline
- high 338 stale, 6 reposted of 342 open
- Hiring momentum
- 454 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Zipline 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Zipline .
About this role
As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Zipline, you will design, implement, and validate embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft, ensuring reliable communication and updates in safety-critical environments. You will collaborate with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to enhance platform services on embedded Linux systems, while also investigating failures and driving improvements in reliability and performance.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Zipline as an employer.
What you need
- 5–12 years developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments
- Strong Rust, C++, or comparable systems-programming skills, with experience delivering reliable software on embedded Linux
- Working knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, networking, IPC, and distributed or multi-process systems
- Ability to debug complex behavior across services, operating systems, networks, and hardware
- Experience designing technical interfaces and carrying cross-functional integrations through delivery
Nice to have
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, industrial, medical, or another high-reliability domain
- Familiarity with autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization
- For Staff-level scope, a record of leading architecture across multiple systems and influencing decisions beyond an individual component
What you get
- Starting cash range of $160,000 - $250,000 based on experience and qualifications
- Equity compensation
- Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
- Sales incentives
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Paid time off
Worth weighing
- The role involves working with complex systems that may require debugging across multiple domains
- The starting cash range is broad and dependent on various factors
- The position may be hired at different levels based on experience, which could affect responsibilities and expectations
Summarised from Zipline 's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Zipline on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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