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Own and grow Zipline's strategic restaurant partnerships: launch services, manage relationships, track success metrics, surface customer insights, drive cross-functional execution, and influence product roadmap to deliver business impact.

Owns Zipline’s mobile test site program from strategy and site selection through deployment, operations, maintenance, auditing, and demobilization. The role translates engineering testing needs into deployment plans, coordinates infrastructure, staffing, vendors, safety, security, and asset allocation, and establishes standardized procedures and readiness criteria. It requires cross-functional leadership across engineering, flight operations, maintenance, safety, security, and external partners, plus regular travel to remote or challenging test locations.

Own the end-to-end electrical architecture for autonomous drone charging towers, including power distribution, cable harnesses, BOMs, cost trade-offs, NEC compliance, UL-listed raceway certification, and AHJ approvals. Support field deployments and ensure designs are practical, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. The role requires industrial power systems experience, hands-on cable and conduit knowledge, harness design software proficiency, and strong regulatory and financial judgment.

Owns Zipline’s configuration management framework across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and field service. Establishes part-numbering, revision control, BOM structures, variant management, effectivity, release governance, and traceability standards. Defines PLM functional requirements, leads UAT, resolves product-data issues across PLM and ERP systems, and drives cross-functional improvements that reduce release errors and engineering change cycle time. Requires strong hardware product lifecycle, configuration management, and cross-functional leadership experience.

Lead the electrical design and development of high-reliability embedded systems for drone charging and docking infrastructure. Own designs from requirements and schematic capture through PCB layout, validation, production, certification, and field deployment. Drive architecture, trade studies, risk reduction, and system integration while collaborating with mechanical, embedded, reliability, systems, manufacturing, and supplier teams. Occasional travel supports supplier visits, deployments, and field validation.

Lead the electrical design and development of high-performance power electronics for drone charging and docking systems, from requirements and architecture through schematic capture, PCB layout, validation, production, certification, and deployment. Collaborate with mechanical, embedded, reliability, and systems teams; conduct trade studies, resolve field issues, and improve system designs. The role requires hands-on expertise in AC-DC and DC-DC conversion, battery charging, high-voltage semiconductors, digital communications, lab testing, and electrical safety standards.

Own electrical subsystems for Zipline’s long-range autonomous aircraft, from architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, and validation through production and field support. Design electronics such as processors, communication systems, battery systems, motor drives, and power supplies. Lead trade studies, risk reduction, system integration, reliability testing, manufacturing support, certification, and troubleshooting while collaborating with firmware, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and operations teams.

Owns the industrialization, validation, release, and sustainment of electro-mechanical assembly lines for aircraft, docks, and logistics hardware. Designs tooling and workstations, leads PFMEA and process validation, improves yield, throughput, capability, and cost, and resolves production issues. Partners cross-functionally on DFM, capacity planning, procurement, commissioning, and production scaling while training technicians and supporting critical site ramps.

Leads mechanical engineering strategy and a player-coach team for autonomous aircraft and ground systems. Owns mechanical architecture, product roadmaps, requirements, safety and reliability analysis, design reviews, testing, production readiness, and field deployment. Partners across product, systems, manufacturing, suppliers, and operations to balance performance, manufacturability, serviceability, cost, and schedule. Develops engineers while driving resolution of complex design, production, and field issues.

Design and develop C++ firmware for aircraft microcontrollers, communication interfaces, reusable platform components, real-time performance, fault handling, monitoring, and diagnostics. Build Rust-based tooling and software-in-the-loop simulations to validate firmware for autonomous aircraft systems. Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, embedded Linux, and systems engineers in an onsite internship focused on safety-critical deployed systems.