🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll own and evolve coding standards and development practices as part of Zipline's small tooling team. You'll pair daily with engineers across autonomy, firmware, and flight software, improving workflows and writing safety-critical Rust and C++ code. This role offers the chance to shape strategic technical direction for the world's largest autonomous logistics system.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Pair daily with other software engineers to improve workflows and enforce coding guidelines
• Own and evolve Zipline's coding standards and development practices
• Form and lead a Rust Language steering group
• Write and maintain safety-critical Rust and C++ code

📋 Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience at engineering-led companies
• Deep experience writing and maintaining safety-critical Rust or C++ code
• Strong understanding of embedded execution environments (e.g., Nvidia Orin/Thor)
• Ability to develop and enforce coding guidelines and standards across diverse teams

✨ Nice to Have

• Excitement about having other engineers as your customer
• Experience with CI/CD, build, and testing pipelines
• Customer-centric mindset with ability to embed quickly

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Equity compensation
• 🏆 Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• 🏖️ Paid time off
• 🏥 Medical, dental and vision insurance

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Phone Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3Onsite Interviews· 4 hours