flyzipline · South San Francisco, California, USA · South San Francisco, California, United States
<div class="content-intro"><h3>About Zipline</h3> <p>Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. </p> <p>Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.</p> <p>Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.</p> <p>We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.</p></div><h2><strong>About You and The Role </strong></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that depend on reliable avionics, sensing, communications, power, and ground-support hardware. These systems must work in the real world, at fleet scale, across changing environments, manufacturing variation, field operations, and rapid product evolution.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As an Electrical Engineer on the Avionics team, you will contribute to the design, integration, validation, and release of electrical hardware for aircraft and supporting ground systems. You will work closely with experienced electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, manufacturing, test, quality, supply-chain, and operations teams to build hardware that is safe, robust, manufacturable, and ready for real-world use.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a hands-on entry-level role for someone with strong electrical engineering fundamentals and practical experience from internships, co-ops, research, capstone projects, competition teams, or personal builds. You should be excited to learn quickly, work carefully in the lab, and grow into deeper subsystem ownership over time.</span></p> <h2><strong>What You'll Do </strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contribute to the design and development of avionics and ground-support PCBAs, including digital, analog, sensing, communications, power, and control circuits.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Support schematic capture, component selection, interface definition, and board-level integration with guidance from experienced engineers.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Help bring up new boards, run bench tests, collect data, and summarize results to support design validation and release decisions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work with PCB layout, mechanical engineering, and firmware teams to close interface, packaging, thermal, and manufacturability issues.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Support validation testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations for issues found during bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, or flight test.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contribute to requirements, test procedures, design documentation, release packages, and change-control records for avionics hardware.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participate in design reviews and learn to evaluate tradeoffs across performance, reliability, manufacturability, weight, power, and cost.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work with manufacturing, test, quality, and operations teams to support prototype builds, production readiness, and fielded hardware improvements.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build good engineering judgment by asking questions early, documenting work clearly, and following problems through to resolution.</span></li> </ul> <h2><strong>What You'll Bring</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field with 1-3 years of industry experience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong fundamentals in analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensing, and communication circuits.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience through coursework, internships, or projects with PCBAs,