Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Tooling

Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.

 

Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people.

About You and The Role  

Zipline is expanding our autonomous drone delivery network around the world, ensuring that people can access essential supplies, no matter where they live. As part of this expansion, we need to develop tooling and technologies that allow us to validate our systems in the most rigorous and thorough way possible. This technology is crucial in maintaining the highest standards of safety, enabling our drones to operate reliably in diverse environments and under various conditions.

At Zipline, we are unwavering in our commitment to the safety and reliability of our systems. As a member of the Autonomy Validation team, your focus will be on building and maintaining the tooling necessary for the safety validation of our Platform 2 systems. You will be responsible for creating advanced simulation tools that enable large-scale testing across diverse and complex scenarios, ensuring that our autonomous systems meet the highest safety standards and perform reliably in real-world conditions.

What You'll Do  

• Develop applications and frameworks for software validation used across the Autonomy stack
• Develop and support infrastructure to handle large-scale execution of validation tasks.
• Establish best practices for Autonomy capability validation
• Use simulation tools to construct environments and scenarios for evaluating Autonomy performance
• Partner closely with Autonomy software team to understand how our operating environment impacts our capabilities
• Partner closely with systems engineering and data teams to understand requirements and ensure we have the right data and metrics to validate system performance
• Partner closely with test engineering to ensure successful completion of vehicle tests
• Support documentation development  for internal and external stakeholders
• Support test design and development for software Release Validation

What You'll Bring 

• 5+ years of experience deploying safety-critical systems and supporting tools in production
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
• Fluency in one or more of the following programming languages: Rust, C++, C, C#
• Familiarity with using simulation to evaluate system performance
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: Simulation, Robotic Perception, Robotic Planning and Decision-Making

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