Jobs at Zipline

Own Zipline’s company-wide cybersecurity and privacy strategy across product, infrastructure, data, corporate technology, aircraft, and field systems. Lead a technical security engineering team, prioritize and remediate major risks, establish security architecture and controls, oversee threat modeling and incident response, and communicate risk to leadership. Build scalable security capabilities, develop talent, and balance security, privacy, safety, legal, customer, and business requirements in a fast-growing cyber-physical organization.

Designs end-to-end user experiences for Zipline’s autonomous delivery hardware, software, operations, and service touchpoints. Conducts field research, translates complex system behavior into user journeys and interaction models, defines product requirements, prototypes physical and digital concepts, and partners with engineering, industrial design, and product teams to improve clarity, safety, usability, and trust.

Designs and deploys production equipment, fixtures, tooling, workstations, and end-of-line test systems for aircraft and safety-critical subsystems. Owns projects from requirements and CAD through vendor fabrication, commissioning, testing, and production release. Leads debugging, root-cause analysis, acceptance testing, and process improvements affecting cycle time, uptime, yield, and safety. Coordinates with engineering, quality, supply chain, and field teams, with regular onsite work and up to 15% travel.

Own software and automated test systems for aircraft, docks, delivery pods, and subassemblies. Develop test automation, data pipelines, instrumentation interfaces, MES integration, production dashboards, and tester validation. Troubleshoot factory-floor hardware and software issues, define test criteria, coordinate vendor builds, and improve yield, false-fail rates, cycle time, uptime, and traceability across high-throughput manufacturing operations.

Owns the end-to-end development, validation, deployment, and sustainment of electrical, functional, and automated production test systems for aircraft and logistics hardware. Responsibilities include integrating instrumentation and fixtures, developing Python or LabVIEW automation, debugging factory-floor issues, integrating manufacturing data systems, improving yield and cycle time, coordinating vendors and cross-functional launches, and maintaining calibration, validation, and traceability documentation.

Owns end-to-end production test systems for aircraft, delivery pods, docks, and subassemblies. Builds electrical and functional testers, automates test execution, integrates MES and production data pipelines, defines validation criteria, troubleshoots factory-floor issues, and improves yield, cycle time, uptime, and false-fail rates. Coordinates vendors, qualifications, calibration, training, release, and sustainment while ensuring safety, traceability, and reliable high-throughput manufacturing.

Lead manufacturing engineering for Zipline’s electro-mechanical aircraft, dock, and logistics hardware assembly lines. Own process definition, tooling, pilot builds, validation, production release, and sustainment. Coordinate with design, quality, supply chain, maintenance, and operations teams while improving yield, throughput, takt time, reliability, and cost. Develop PFMEAs, control plans, SOPs, work instructions, and training. Investigate production issues, implement corrective actions, and scale manufacturing from tens to thousands of units weekly.

Leads the design, delivery, commissioning, and continuous improvement of mechanical production equipment and tooling for autonomous aircraft and electromechanical systems. Responsibilities include CAD, drawings, fixtures, automation, vendor oversight, debugging, acceptance testing, design standards, and cross-functional coordination. The role mentors engineers and technicians, improves throughput, uptime, cycle time, yield, and safety, and requires substantial on-site factory-floor work with occasional off-hours commissioning and travel.

Designs, deploys, commissions, and sustains production equipment, fixtures, tooling, workstations, and automated test rigs for aircraft, batteries, docks, and electro-mechanical subsystems. Responsibilities include CAD and detailed drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, vendor management, fabrication oversight, factory-floor debugging, acceptance testing, operator training, and improving cycle time, uptime, and first-pass yield. The role requires close collaboration across engineering, quality, supply chain, test, and field operations, with regular on-site work and occasional travel.

Supports manufacturing of autonomous delivery aircraft, docks, and logistics hardware. Designs fixtures, gauges, tooling, and workstations; develops and validates production processes; analyzes manufacturing data; investigates quality and production issues; writes work instructions; supports training, design-for-manufacturing, capacity planning, and production readiness. The role is intended for new graduates and early-career engineers with hands-on manufacturing experience and technical guidance.

Own the development, validation, release, and sustainment of assembly and feeder-subassembly production lines for complex electro-mechanical aerospace products. Design tooling and workstations, define assembly processes and controls, investigate production issues, improve yield and throughput, lead design-for-manufacturing decisions, create work instructions, train technicians, and coordinate cross-functional production ramps.

Develops factory capacity and capital-investment plans, identifies and removes manufacturing bottlenecks, conducts time studies, balances production lines, defines standard work, improves layouts and material flow, and establishes performance KPIs. Partners with manufacturing, production, supply chain, and planning teams to improve throughput, utilization, cycle time, labor efficiency, lead time, and cost while scaling electromechanical production systems.

Own and scale electromechanical assembly and feeder-subassembly production lines from process definition through validation, release, and sustainment. Design and commission tooling, fixtures, workstations, and operator flows; develop PFMEAs, control plans, SPC, capability studies, SOPs, and training. Improve yield, throughput, reliability, takt time, and quality costs while investigating production issues and implementing corrective actions. Coordinate with engineering, quality, supply chain, maintenance, and operations to deliver validated, stable production.

Designs, integrates, commissions, and improves production equipment and tooling for aircraft, battery packs, docks, and electro-mechanical subsystems. Responsibilities include CAD, mechanism and automation design, vendor coordination, factory-floor debugging, acceptance testing, safety compliance, and production release. The role targets improvements in throughput, tooling uptime, cycle time, and first-pass yield while coordinating with engineering, quality, supply chain, and field operations teams.

Designs, delivers, validates, and sustains mechanical production-test fixtures and calibration stations for aircraft, docks, pods, and subassemblies. Integrates sensors, actuators, instrumentation, harnesses, safety systems, and test automation with electrical and software teams. Troubleshoots factory-floor issues, improves yield, cycle time, tester uptime, and false-fail rates, and maintains production-readiness documentation. The role requires hands-on manufacturing-floor support, vendor coordination, validation, and cross-functional launch participation.

Develops and commissions controls and electrical interfaces for production fixtures, workstations, automation, and test equipment. Owns equipment delivery from requirements through vendor build, acceptance, commissioning, and production support. Diagnoses faults, integrates sensors and actuators, improves throughput and first-pass yield, and collaborates with mechanical, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, test, and field teams. The role requires substantial factory-floor presence, occasional off-hours commissioning, and up to 15% travel.

Owns the design, delivery, validation, and sustainment of automated electrical and functional production testers for aircraft, docks, pods, and subassemblies. Develops instrumentation, harnesses, interfaces, data pipelines, and test automation while debugging PCBA and tester issues. Partners cross-functionally on acceptance criteria, calibration, launches, vendor builds, documentation, and production readiness. Improves yield, cycle time, tester uptime, false-fail rates, traceability, and manufacturing throughput through hands-on factory-floor support.

Design, integrate, commission, and improve production automation for aircraft, batteries, docks, and flight-critical subsystems. The role owns equipment requirements, vendor coordination, tooling design, factory-floor debugging, acceptance testing, operator training, and production deployment. Success is measured through cycle-time, uptime, first-pass yield, maintainability, and cost improvements. The engineer collaborates across design, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, testing, and field operations, with regular onsite work, occasional off-hours commissioning, and up to 15% travel.

Designs and improves factory layouts, work methods, capacity models, and production systems. Conducts time studies, defines standard work, balances production lines, identifies bottlenecks, and develops labor, equipment, space, and capital-investment scenarios. Partners with manufacturing, production, supply chain, and planning teams to improve throughput, utilization, cycle time, labor efficiency, cost, inventory, and lead time. Builds KPIs, decision tools, financial models, and implementation plans for factory scaling.

Supports supplier industrialization and manufacturing quality initiatives for drone production. Responsibilities include design-for-manufacturing reviews, assembly-line planning, process documentation, supplier qualification, fixture and automation design, root cause analysis, corrective actions, KPI tracking, and continuous improvement. Works with internal teams and contract manufacturers to improve quality, cost, delivery, manufacturability, and production efficiency.