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Senior Software Systems Validation Engineer

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Senior Software Systems Validation Engineer in USA

  • Zipline
  • Full time
  • Email
  • South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Define system-level validation strategies for software performance, reliability, and safety.
  • Design, implement, and execute nominal, adversarial, stress, and edge-case scenarios from simulation through full-system flight testing.
  • Build metrics, visualizations, real-time performance and safety monitors, and automated validation tools.
  • Set validation evidence and exit criteria for release, deployment, and operating-domain expansion decisions.
  • Debug and document failures across simulation, hardware, firmware, embedded software, and application software, escalating unresolved safety or performance risks.
  • Partner with test infrastructure and data platform teams to improve automated validation coverage, efficiency, and precision.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 3 years of software development, software systems engineering, or software validation experience with robotic systems.
  • Strong experience in one or more relevant areas including embedded Linux, perception, motion planning, navigation, control, estimation, dynamics, connected systems, or power management.
  • Experience developing nominal, adversarial, stress, and edge-case validation for autonomous robotics.
  • Experience root-causing failures in complex autonomous systems and working with large datasets in production pipelines.
  • Proficiency with Python and SQL, plus a safety-critical programming language such as MISRA C, Rust, or C++.
  • Experience applying risk-assessment techniques and deriving software safety or performance requirements from functional safety requirements or similar decompositions.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Paid time off.
  • Potential equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.

Salary: $150k - $250k/yr

Zipline

Zipline is redefining logistics with its instant delivery system that addresses urgent access challenges for a diverse range of customers, including governments and businesses. By leveraging advanced technology like robotics and autonomy, Zipline ensures equitable access to essential goods, wheth...

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