About You and The Role  

Do you thrive in high-pressure environments where every minute counts and your decisions directly impact life-saving deliveries? The Service Engineering team sits at the critical nexus between operations and engineering, serving as the first line of technical support for our global fleet of aircraft, droids, and docks. When assets go down, customers can't receive essential supplies—there's no room for delay.

Our Service Engineers are the elite troubleshooters who ensure grounded assets return to service with maximum velocity and quality. You'll work in 24/7 shift operations, serving as the primary technical lead who coordinates cross-team resources, diagnoses complex technical issues, and maintains the operational tempo that keeps Zipline flying around the world.

This role operates under strict regulatory requirements (FAA Part 135) and demanding performance targets to minimize time to service restoration and maximizing first-time fix rates. You'll serve both Flight Test and Commercial Operations, making your work essential to every delivery we make.

What You'll Do  

As a Service Engineer, you'll lead technical response as the primary technical lead for grounded assets, coordinating cross-team resources and driving resolution with urgency and precision. Your systematic troubleshooting approach will use approved procedures and diagnostic tools to identify root causes and implement solutions for aircraft, droid, and dock systems. Working in 24/7 shift operations forms a core part of your responsibilities, including comprehensive handovers, on-call duties, and emergency response protocols to maintain continuous coverage.

You'll coordinate cross-team escalation to engineering support and maintenance teams, creating work orders and ensuring smooth handoffs when physical maintenance is required. Log analysis and diagnostics will become second nature as you identify patterns, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and generate reports that drive continuous improvement. Maintaining regulatory compliance with FAA Part 135 operations, CAMP requirements, and repairman certification standards ensures all documentation meets aviation industry standards.

Driving continuous improvement will be central to your role as you contribute to troubleshooting guides, identify automation opportunities, and provide feedback to design engineering on system improvements. You'll operate advanced tools including the Zipline ERP (Zerp) platform, Fleet Apps, incident.io, and Jira to track assets, manage incidents, and coordinate with global teams. Asset triage and prioritization will maximize operational impact, ensuring critical assets return to service first while managing multiple incidents simultaneously.

Documentation and tracking of all troubleshooting activities, resolutions, and lessons learned builds institutional knowledge and supports regulatory requirements.

What You'll Bring 

• Your technical background in mechanical, electrical, software, mechatronics, aerospace or systems engineering should demonstrate ability to quickly learn complex technical systems and troubleshoot under pressure. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience in systematic troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and technical documentation are essential.
• Operations or maintenance experience with complex systems in high-stakes environments where downtime has significant impact, will prepare you for this role. 
• Excellent communication and coordination skills with proven ability to lead technical response, coordinate cross-functional teams, and communicate effectively under pressure are crucial. 
• Data analysis capabilities with experience in log analysis, performance metrics, and basic scripting or SQL for troubleshooting and reporting will enhance your effectiveness. 
• A continuous improvement mindset with demonstrated ability to identify process improvements, contribute to documentation, and drive operational excellence aligns with our culture.
• Adaptability and resilience to thrive in a rapidly changing environment where procedures, tools, and priorities evolve frequently is essential. 
• Customer impact focus with understanding that your work directly affects life-saving deliveries and operational reliability drives everything we do.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical writing skills with experience creating troubleshooting guides, procedures, and technical documentation support our documentation-driven culture.
• Multi-site operations experience supporting distributed teams and assets across multiple time zones matches our global operations.
• Automation and tooling experience with process improvement, script development, or system integration contributes to our continuous improvement efforts.

What Else You Need to Know   

The starting cash range for this role is $68,000 - $145,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

This role requires working 24/7 shift operations including nights, weekends, and holidays as part of our continuous coverage model. You'll participate in on-call rotations and must be available for rapid response when critical assets are grounded.

The position operates under strict performance metrics and regulatory requirements. You'll work in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment where your decisions directly impact customer deliveries and operational safety.

Ability to sit (or stand at a standing desk) for long periods of time to review tickets, conduct analysis and coordinate solutions with engineers when needed. 

Travel may be required occasionally for training, certification, or site support activities (10%).

About You and The Role  

Zipline is looking for a Senior Flight Test Engineer to lead comprehensive flight test campaigns and integrate automated testing infrastructure into our flight test program. Your work will help enable Zipline to continuously test, learn, and deploy improvements to our global delivery service.

In this role, you will develop a deep understanding of Zipline’s end-to-end logistics system and work closely with cross-functional partners to generate rapid insights into changes across hardware, software, and operations. Your work will serve as the final line of defense before software and hardware are deployed globally to perform critical real-world deliveries.

You’ll own system-level flight test campaigns from planning through execution and analysis. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys translating complex engineering questions into effective test programs and using data and automation to accelerate learning.

Do you enjoy designing system-level test campaigns and owning the outcome end-to-end? Are you collaborative and motivated to integrate the needs of multiple engineering teams into a unified test strategy? Are you passionate about bringing automation, tooling, and data analytics into flight testing to increase speed and insight? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

What You'll Do  

• Develop and execute flight test campaigns to validate aircraft performance, delivery operations, docking systems, and fleet orchestration.
  
  
• Ensure flight testing is used for the highest-value learning opportunities, and recommend alternative test approaches when more efficient methods exist.
  
  
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and software teams to define system-level flight test objectives and success criteria.
  
  
• Assess hardware and software readiness for testing and make sound judgments on risk posture and flight readiness.
  
  
• Identify and remove technical and programmatic roadblocks that slow down flight testing.
  
  
• Own or coordinate key aspects of flight operations, including preflight preparation, flight execution, and incident reporting.
  
  
• Analyze flight test data to identify anomalies, trends, and opportunities for rapid iteration.
  
  
• Track test progress and introduce new tools, processes, and workflows that enable safe and efficient testing.
  
  
• Develop and integrate software tooling and automated test infrastructure to improve test precision, insight, capacity, and velocity.
  
  
  

What You'll Bring 

• 3+ years designing, developing or validating autonomous, robotic, systems (UAS experience preferred).
  
  
• Experience maintaining and enforcing safety in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment.
  
  
• Strong experience analyzing and interpreting test data.
  
  
• Experience bringing up and debugging hardware and software systems for automated platforms.
  
  
• A systems-level mindset, with the ability to balance risks and priorities across structures, aerodynamics, embedded systems, and software teams.
  
  
• Strong judgment on when to move quickly with pragmatic solutions and when to invest in long-term infrastructure or tooling.
  
  
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally for flight testing (approximately 2–6 weeks per year).
  
  
• Comfort working outdoors and supporting flight test activities in varying weather conditions.
  
  

What Else You Need to Know  

The starting cash range for this role is $130,000 - $200,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

ABOUT THE ROLE

Zipline is looking for software engineers to build the tools and infrastructure that power our systems validation and flight test organizations. This team develops precise, efficient, and scalable software solutions used to validate aircraft and ground systems at every level.

Our work spans everything from integrating real avionics, sensors, actuators, and radios with high-fidelity simulated environments in bench-top Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) setups, to building applications that plan, orchestrate, and evaluate thousands of automated nominal and off-nominal real-world flight tests every day. This role directly impacts the speed, confidence, and quality of hardware and software development at Zipline.

In this role, you will develop a deep understanding of Zipline’s end-to-end logistics system and work closely with cross-functional partners who rely on your tools to deliver reliable, flight-ready software. Most importantly, the systems you build will serve as the final line of defense before software and hardware is deployed globally to perform critical, real-world deliveries.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design, develop, and maintain HIL test infrastructure that integrates real aircraft hardware with simulated systems and environments.
• Develop software tools, frameworks, and services to enable large-scale automated and semi-automated system validation.
• Support a high-throughput flight test organization running thousands of daily tests, from targeted regression tests to rare off-nominal scenarios.
• Write and maintain test software, drivers, and interfaces for embedded and Linux-based systems.
• Support test framework architecture designs and improvements.
• Debug complex validation failures spanning simulation, hardware, firmware, and application software
• Collaborate with flight test engineers, systems engineers,  avionics, autonomy and embedded software teams to define system-level validation strategies.
• Improve test reliability, debuggability, and signal-to-noise as systems and test volume scale.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering for complex, hardware-backed, safety-critical systems.
• Extensive experience in Python, specifically using test systems (e.g. pytest)
• Experience testing Rust and/or C embedded systems.
• Extensive experience working with CI/CD.
• Experience developing and executing test plans for complex, safety critical, embedded and cloud software.
• Strong problem-solving and ability to quickly learn a new system for testing purposes

What Else You Need to Know   

The starting cash range for this role is $150,000 - 180,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

 ABOUT YOU AND THE ROLE 

We are seeking two Hardware Test Engineering Manager roles to lead the strategy, development, and execution of hardware validation and test activities across the product lifecycle. These roles require hands-on technical expertise and people leadership, ensuring high-quality, reliable hardware products delivered on schedule. The two roles within Powertrain team are:

• Energy and Power: batteries, cells, charging, power distribution, energy safety
• Electric Drivetrain: electric propulsion, motors, propellers, electromechanical systems. 

You will be responsible for leading a team of multidisciplinary engineers, developing world-class test methods, equipment, and execution of hardware testing. This role is for the full lifecycle of hardware development, from performance testing to find the limits of the hardware, system-level performance tests, durability and environmental survivability, and the development of automated hardware testing for production line applications.

You will act as a player-coach who has an area of expertise in either batteries or electric propulsion, and is comfortable providing strategic vision as well as being in the weeds of the team's designs, builds, analysis and reviews. You will help Zipline evolve its hardware testing philosophy and capacity, and grow the team in the process. The success of this team is vital to the success of Zipline overall.

This effort will enable Zipline’s impact to expand from 100’s of thousand deliveries/year to 100’s of millions in a wide variety of environmental conditions around the world.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead a team of test engineers and specialists responsible for powertrain testing.
• This group is responsible for:
• Demonstrating the ultimate capability of powertrain hardware, including batteries, cells, power distribution units, electric propulsion units, and electromechanical actuators. 
• Contributing to the overall intuition of the engineering team through close involvement in design reviews, prototyping, and testing of components and assemblies.
• Designing, building, operating, purchasing and maintaining test equipment.
• Developing strategies and test campaigns to efficiently evaluate function, reliability and safety of critical components and assemblies.
• Developing calculations for damage and fatigue to replicate flight conditions in ground-based test methods. 
• Root causing failures alongside design engineers and working to create elegant solutions.
• Recreate system-level effects including off-nominal scenarios and safety tests.
• Raise the bar for the existing team by creating a vision for the future of the team based on company goals, and implementing strategies to achieve outcomes.
• Develop laboratory grade test setups for either of:
• Battery Testing including safety testing and thermal runaway testing
• Cell Testing for cell cycle life and performance optimization
• Motor Testing including dynamometer development and motor characterization
• Propeller Testing including aerodynamic characterization
• Scope out areas where growth is needed and make key hires that revolutionize the quality and pace of work 

 To Achieve This You Will

• Leverage your technical leadership experience in relevant fields to establish a team culture that biases towards action and tests ideas to achieve radically simple and reliable designs.
• Motivate your team with a clear vision and create ambitious plans for your team’s work while holding a high bar for technical quality
• Build your team by hiring world class engineers

What You'll Bring

• Past success leading engineering teams to rapidly develop first of its kind hardware and deploy into the field with the level of rigor that a high volume or safety critical application requires.
• Deep technical depth in test hardware design and interfacing with software and automation, structures, mechanisms, and how to rapidly and effectively test for performance, capability, and reliability
• Enthusiasm for building a team - finding and convincing top talent to join you in your work.
• Past success managing and developing an excellent team of engineers.
• Past success bringing products through the full product development life cycle

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in hardware test, validation, or reliability engineering
• 3+ years of people management or technical leadership experience
• Strong understanding of hardware design, electronics, and system-level testing. 
• Strong understanding of fatigue analysis, damage models, material properties. 
• Strong understanding of test acceleration methods and principles
• Expertise in either:
• Battery and cell testing, especially for mass sensitive applications
• Motors and Electro-magnetics
• Propeller and Aerodynamics
• Familiarity with scripting, automation tools, and the automation of data analysis (Python preferred)

What Else You Need to Know
The starting cash range for this role is $145,000 – $225,000. Please note that these are starting salary ranges that represent multiple internal levels. The final cash pay will depend on experience, qualifications, skills, location, and projected impact. Total compensation will also include equity, incentives, and benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply.

Please note that this role is based in South San Francisco; a remote option is not available.

About Zipline

About You and the Role

Zipline is building the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering vital medical and commercial supplies across the globe. As we scale our operations and extend into more complex, safety-critical environments, the ability to validate and prove our autonomy performance at scale becomes absolutely essential.

We’re looking for a deeply technical software engineer to join the Autonomy Validation team — a core team responsible for building the infrastructure, tools, and frameworks that support software validation across the entire Autonomy organization. This includes planning, perception, control, and all of the decision-making logic that powers our self-flying aircraft.

Our autonomy stack is highly custom-built, and while that gives us unmatched control and performance, it also means standard out-of-the-box testing tools don't work. In this role, you’ll take ownership of developing robust internal platforms for validation — enabling both simulation at scale and rigorous scenario testing — so that autonomy engineers can ship with confidence.

This is not a QA role. It’s a foundational software engineering position building critical systems that will directly shape how we test, verify, and deploy autonomy safely around the world.

What You'll Do

• Build and own the infrastructure for validating autonomous features and system performance across planning, perception, and control.
• Design and develop simulation tools and scenario generation for large-scale and high-fidelity testing of autonomy under real-world and edge-case conditions.
• Develop custom tools for validation and testing of autonomy components that plug into our internal autonomy development stack.
• Create scalable, reliable, and automated solutions for running, tracking, and analyzing thousands of validation tasks across autonomy org.
• Collaborate deeply with:
• Autonomy engineers, to understand how system behavior should be evaluated.
• Systems and data engineers, to ensure metrics, safety thresholds, and requirements are codified in test infrastructure.
• Flight test and QA teams, to connect real-world results back into test tools and CI loops.
• Establish best practices for software release validation, helping ensure our autonomy stack is safe, measurable, and production-ready.
• Contribute to internal docs, standards, and validation workflows that scale across the autonomy organization.
• Define validation methodologies and metrics, determining how new autonomy features should be evaluated and measured in simulation

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience building software systems for simulation, testing, or safety validation — ideally in robotics, autonomy, aerospace, or other real-time, safety-critical domains
• Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in C++, Rust, or C (Python is a plus for tooling and scripting)
• Hands-on experience building or working with simulation systems for robotics or autonomous systems, particularly for testing or validation
• Experience building tools, platforms, or infrastructure used by other engineers
• Understanding of validation methodologies, including defining metrics, evaluating system behavior, and testing complex electromechanical systems

Nice to Have

• Experience with high-fidelity simulation or scenario generation frameworks
• Experience with large-scale or distributed systems (e.g., cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Familiarity working with systems engineering concepts (requirements, safety constraints, metrics)
• Exposure to autonomy stacks (planning, perception, control)
• Some exposure to machine learning systems (not required)

What We're not Looking For

• Primarily MATLAB/Simulink-based simulation experience
• Roles focused mainly on systems engineering without hands-on software development
• Infrastructure- or DevOps-focused roles without experience in autonomy or simulation
• QA/QC-focused verification roles without significant software engineering ownership

What Else You Need to Know   

About Zipline 

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. 

About this role

Zipline’s infrastructure does not map cleanly to standard construction approaches. This role is responsible for improving how we design and execute construction by identifying risks early and developing better ways to build.

The Construction Innovation Manager is an experienced construction leader who operates across projects. You will evaluate upcoming work, identify where standard approaches will break down, and implement solutions that improve cost, schedule, and scalability.

You will also step into active projects as needed to resolve issues, recover schedules, and support execution.

This position is based out of our office in South San Francisco with intermittent travel within California and the USA. 

What you’ll do

• Review upcoming and active projects to identify:
• Execution risks
• Schedule constraints
• Cost drivers
• Develop and implement improvements to construction methods and processes
• Evaluate standard industry practices and determine:
• When they should be applied
• When they should be adapted or replaced
• Support construction and deployment teams with:
• Constructability feedback
• Sequencing and scheduling improvements
• Lead targeted efforts to:
• Recover slipping schedules
• Reduce cost
• Resolve complex field issues
• Step into projects as needed to:
• Remove blockers
• Re-align execution plans
• Drive progress
• Identify opportunities for:
• Standardization
• Prefabrication
• Improved vendor strategies
• Tooling to improve construction quality & placement accuracy for Zipline hardware
• Capture and implement lessons learned across projects
  
  

• Understand our internal and external customer’s business and needs and work with our internal engineering and business teams to refine and roadmap necessary changes to ensure the successful deployment of the Ground Systems infrastructure. 
• Source and develop relationships with outside organizations (local jurisdiction, utilities, contractors, OEM and material suppliers etc).
• Evaluate all options and a lean budget, select best vendors to ensure reliable and quality services and products.
• Understand and mitigate the preconstruction, construction, operational and sustaining  risks associated with each project. 
• Interact directly with internal and external partners and stakeholders as needed. 
• Domestic travel to project sites expected on an ad-hoc basis. 

What you’ll bring

• 6–10+ years of experience in construction management or infrastructure delivery
• Experience delivering complex, multi-disciplinary projects
• Strong understanding of construction across multiple trades (civil, structural, electrical, site work)
• Ability to evaluate and improve construction methods and execution strategies
• Ability to analyze and optimize construction schedules
• Track record of solving ambiguous, high-impact problems
• Experience supporting both:
• Planning and design phases
• Field execution
• Willingness to take ownership of urgent or high-priority issues
• Clear communication and ability to work across teams
• Strong candidates should have excellent communications skills to:
• Drive internal alignment of requirements for projects based on business needs.
• Provide leadership team with updates on scope, schedule and budgets. 
• Drive external parties for the implementation of real estate projects. 
• The individual will be based at Zipline's headquarters in South San Francisco and will be expected to travel intermittently to implement Zipline's expansion in multiple metros across the US and internationally .
• Must be eligible to work in the US.

What Else You Need To Know

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About Zipline

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

It’s hard to fly without a foundational understanding of how to manipulate the air around you; as Head of Aerodynamics you’ll be responsible for the team that does exactly that.  We do not just analyze other peoples’ designs - we are a central force behind Zipline’s autonomous aircraft hardware and software development, working on everything from clean-sheet vehicle conceptual layout through to the detailed geometry design of all wetted surfaces using a variety of model-based and physical test approaches.  In addition to your proven record of building and managing small teams, you’ll have world-class experience in solving vehicle aerodynamic design challenges, with an unrivaled grasp of the fundamentals of applied aerodynamics, aircraft design and aeroacoustics.

What You'll Do

You will be responsible for leading and developing the team that counts the following among its core deliverables:

• Conceptual design for new vehicles, as well as significant hardware revisions of existing platforms
• Building high quality aerodynamics plant models that are carefully validated through ground- and flight-based testing
• Advanced surfacing of all wetted surfaces (both external and internal), which are used by mechanical designers as inputs to produce the final parts
• Propeller designs that push the boundary of low noise, whilst maintaining high aerodynamic efficiency 
• Designing and maintaining our test hardware and methods, including internal wind tunnels, bench test set-ups, and instrumented flight test assets, as well as the essential aero measurement tools

What You'll Bring

This is a leadership role on a team that is central to Zipline’s success, and is therefore not an entry level position. Success in this role will require a disciplined and first-principles approach, with a deep connection and understanding at the system and product levels.  You’ll be naturally curious and able to work seamlessly with individuals and teams both inside and outside of your core engineering / scientific discipline.  Experience in many of the following areas are critical to your ability to contribute at the right level:

• You will have a minimum of 6+ years of industry experience, and either be a proven people leader or clearly ready to own and develop a small team (5-7 direct reports).
• Detailed flow analysis via Computational Fluid Dynamics using packages such as Fluent, Star-CCM+, openFOAM, powerFlow.  
• Generative design of three-dimensional aerodynamic objects, using advanced surfacing techniques in packages such as CATIA or NX
• Hands-on experimental aerodynamics, for example wind tunnel testing, using a variety of techniques including basic flow visualizations (surface oil flow, tufting), pressure measurements (e.g. pressure scanning, pressure sensitive paints), optical flow diagnostics (e.g. LDV, PIV) and load measurement
• Use of low and mid fidelity tools for basic aircraft sizing, for example XFOIL, XROTOR, OpenVSP, RCAS
• Fundamental understanding of a range of aero fundamentals, including: vortex dynamics, boundary layers, turbulence, finite wing theory, aircraft dynamics, three-dimensional flow separation, propeller theory, aeroacoustics, heat and mass transfer, internal flows, fan theory

What Else You Need to Know  

This role is based out of our South San Francisco HQ with minimum of 5 days per week in office. Must be eligible to work in the US and travel globally as needed

The starting cash range for this role is $235,000 to $255,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Overview

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior IT Engineer to run day-to-day IT operations and deliver a seamless employee technology experience across a globally distributed workforce.

This role is responsible for leading the helpdesk, managing onboarding and offboarding, owning device lifecycle and logistics, and continuously improving how IT operates at scale. You’ll bring a strong technical foundation and a bias toward action, with the ability to jump into issues directly while also building the systems, processes, and automation needed to reduce friction over time.

The ideal candidate demonstrates strong ownership by proactively identifying and solving problems while holding themselves accountable for outcomes. They are customer-obsessed and operationally minded, continuously improving processes, eliminating inefficiencies, and building scalable systems that enhance the overall employee experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

Run Day-to-Day IT Operations

• Own and operate the IT helpdesk, ensuring fast, high-quality resolution of employee issues
• Troubleshoot hardware, software, and access issues across a distributed workforce
• Manage and improve support SLAs, KPIs, and service quality metrics
• Serve as an escalation point for complex or high-impact issues
• Manage and support A/V hardware inside conference rooms, all-hands spaces, and in common areas

Own Employee IT Experience (Onboarding → Offboarding)

• Manage all onboarding and offboarding across systems and devices
• Ensure employees have the right access, tools, and equipment from day one
• Partner with HR and Security to maintain clean, auditable processes

Device & Asset Lifecycle Management

• Own procurement, inventory, deployment, and lifecycle management of laptops, accessories, and IT equipment
• Manage logistics for a distributed and hardware-intensive environment (shipping, replacements, repairs)
• Maintain accurate asset tracking and enforce company policies

Core Systems & Infrastructure

• Administer and optimize core IT systems (e.g., SSO, identity, device management, collaboration tools)
• Ensure systems are reliable, secure, and scalable as the company grows
• Continuously improve system integrations and access management by leveraging AI tooling

Automation & Internal Tooling

• Identify and eliminate repetitive work through automation and workflow improvements
• Build scripts, integrations, and lightweight tools to increase leverage across IT operations
• Leverage AI to:
• Accelerate troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Generate scripts, automations, and integrations
• Improve helpdesk responses and documentation

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with teams across the business to support operational needs
• Translate technical issues into clear, actionable communication for non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications

If you don’t meet every requirement but are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply.

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in IT operations, support, or systems administration
• Experience running or significantly contributing to a helpdesk or IT support function
• Strong technical experience with:
• Identity & Access Management (SSO, SAML, SCIM)
• MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems
• Endpoint management and access controls
• Experience using AI-powered tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code) to improve IT operations
• Experience managing onboarding/offboarding at scale
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across hardware and software
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Comfortable working onsite in SF HQ 5+ days/week, with flexibility as needed

• Experience in a high-growth or operationally complex environment
• Experience supporting a globally distributed workforce
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)
• Experience with A/V systems and conference room support

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is Salary range: $142,000 - $214,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. We are always open to negotiation. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About Zipline

About This Posting

This posting represents multiple Senior to Staff Mechanical Design Engineering opportunities across our Engineering organization. We’re hiring across several teams (Avionics, Structures & Mechanisms, Powertrain & Battery, Ground Systems, and Long Range Platform-P1) and across multiple seniority levels. Candidates who apply will be considered for all open roles that align with their background. During your first conversation, we will work with you to identify the best team and level match, based on your experience and interests.

About You and the Work
Does working on large integrated electro-mechanical systems from conception through fully scaled production and world-wide deployment excite you?

At Zipline, our work is intended for the field. Patients are counting on it today and there is no time for aiming low or coming up short. If leveraging your talent to drive creating elegantly engineered solutions excites you, read on.

We’re looking for driven, proactive Senior and Staff Mechanical Design Engineers to join various hardware teams across the organization. Mechanical Design engineers are responsible for coming up with novel designs that not only meet their intended function, but are also robust enough to handle the severe environments our aircraft are exposed to on an everyday basis. This person will be the complete owner for their hardware, hands-on in moving projects forward through each phase of the product design process (Design, Build, Test, Repeat, Scale) to produce high-impact products and manage projects on short timelines.

Additionally, design engineers are responsible for overseeing their designs into production, ensuring designs meet their design requirements, are manufacturable, inspectable, and can be built at scale. Our Mechanical Engineers know their hardware inside and out and work seamlessly with Software, Integration, Production, Suppliers, and Test to make sure their hardware is functioning effectively as a part of the whole system.

Must Have Experience / Skill Sets
 • 5-15+ years of full time working experience, at a business, designing electromechanical and structural assemblies
• Proven track record of complex subassemblies or full systems over at least two product programs
• Demonstrated CAD fluency for system-level ownership (3D/2D of 20–30 parts simultaneously)
• Experience working with suppliers and seeking DFM feedback
• Experience working on structural components and mechanisms, identifying worst-case loads, creating quick test setups
• Demonstrated core competencies: GD&T, FEA (multi-body structural and thermal), design for assembly and field ops
• Prototyping experience and quick iterations on owned projects
• Ability to bound problems with hand calcs (beam, buckling, bolted joints, etc.)
• Knowledge of appropriate safety margins for human safety critical applications
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills

Additional Role-Specific Skills by Team

Avionics
• Experience with high-volume electromechanical assemblies, including PCBA layouts and sensor hardware including cameras, air data sensors, etc.
• First principles thermal design

 Battery and Power Distribution
• Experience with high-volume electromechanical assemblies, including PCBA enclosures, batteries, and connectors
• First principles thermal design

Electric Motors and Propulsion 
• Experience with rotor dynamics, vibrational loads, durability cycling
• Familiarity with electric motors, electromagnetics, and brushless DC motor control
• Bonus: carbon fiber structures in high-volume production

Structures and Mechanisms (Aircraft)
• Design of mass-efficient carbon fiber, metallic, and plastic structures
• Design and testing of reliable servo mechanisms

Towers
• Welding design (AWS 1.1), sheet metal design, electrical integration
• Structural design including hand calcs and FEA
• Bonus: large structural steel, dynamic transient FEA

Dock and Zipping Point
• Experience with design for electronics packaging/harnessing, actuators, mechanisms
• Sheet metal and plastic design

Nice to Haves
• NX as your primary CAD tool
• Aerospace or automotive-level validation experience
• Comfortable with data analysis
• Prior technical mentorship
• Testing experience (test plans, execution, analysis)

Interview Process
This posting represents multiple opportunities and levels, our process is structured to help us place you on the right team while giving you clear visibility into what to expect.

Step 1: Recruiter Call
A short call to understand your background, career goals, and technical focus areas. We’ll use this to assess overall fit for Zipline’s mechanical roles and begin role matching across our teams.

Step 2: Hiring Manager + Technical Interviews
These are two separate interviews. In the first one, you will meet a hiring manager and also complete a technical conversation focused on mechanical fundamentals, problem solving, and your past work.  The second interview will be more focused on technical problems the team is engineering through. 

Step 3: Onsite Panel
A full onsite interview where you meet several team members, deep dive into your design work, walk through technical challenges, and see the environment where our systems are built and tested.  We have a strong preference to conduct your onsite interview in one day, but will be flexible on a case-by-case basis

What Else You Need to Know
The starting cash range for this role is $145,000 – $225,000. Please note that these are starting salary ranges that represent multiple internal levels. The final cash pay will depend on experience, qualifications, skills, location, and projected impact. Total compensation will also include equity, incentives, and benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply.

If you’d like to learn more about Zipline and our teams, feel free to check out our Instagram, one of our Reddit AMAs, or our website.

About You and The Role 

As a Senior Motor Control Engineer at Zipline, you’ll be responsible for shipping high-performance motor controller firmware for Zipline’s family of proprietary motor controllers. Expect to work closely with electrical engineers, structures and mechanism designers, flight software developers, and test-site operations teams. Our close-knit engineering culture presents a unique opportunity to learn from a strong multi-disciplinary team, and lets you swiftly ship features that are clearly linked to the delivery experience.

We use C++ in our firmware development, with Rust and Python for tooling that will be deployed to our production systems in the field. The team uses hardware- and software-in-the-loop test infrastructure to validate new features and regression test existing functionality. You’ll often be querying large data-sets from our test operations to make high-quality data-driven engineering decisions and build prototypes of new algorithms. You’ll build analyses in Matlab, Julia, or Python to prove the performance of your controls designs, and execute Monte-Carlo simulations to validate complex dynamics.

What You'll Do

• Design estimators and controllers for propulsion motors and actuators, in close collaboration with the vehicle controls team.
• Implement these controllers in C++, targeting a bare-metal ARM microcontroller.
• Write peripheral drivers for new revisions of Zipline’s motor controller hardware.
• Get your hands dirty validating your firmware on the bench and in flight tests.
• Understand and improve the reliability of the flight software system as a whole, working with hardware and systems engineers to develop comprehensive fault management strategies and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
• Build vehicle simulations in Rust to validate and regression test Zipline’s firmware.
• Collaborate with electrical engineers to bring-up and validate new inverter designs.
• Build and maintain automated systems to monitor the performance of our fleet and direct maintenance activity.

What You'll Bring

• Fluency in C/C++, and excitement about writing code in Rust and Python.
• Eagerness to learn in a fast-paced safety-critical environment.
• Some experience with mechatronic control systems: hobby projects or professional experience are applicable.
• Curiosity and a willingness to work in a variety of embedded environments, from running on bare metal, to using a RTOS and integrating with embedded Linux.
• Experience supporting robotic systems in the real-world, in particular addressing the long-tail of edge-cases and rare events to guarantee safety, reliability, and performance.
• A systems-engineering mindset, and an eye for finding efficient solutions to problems that may lie outside your core competencies.
• Strong executive communication skills, to efficiently communicate about your work with stakeholders outside your technical domain.
• You must be able to work on-site in South San Francisco, CA.
• A background in electronics design would be appreciated, but is not required.

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is $155,000 - $225,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Please Note

We have received reports stating that certain individuals are reaching out to people under false pretenses, claiming to be Zipline employees, affiliates, agents, or representatives. They may seek to gain access to your personal information or to acquire money from you by offering fictitious employment opportunities or by claiming that they are contacting you on Zipline’s behalf.

Genuine Zipline employees or representatives will never ask you for money or payment in exchange for employment opportunities or other related services. Any such offer of employment or any other service in exchange for fees that claims to be from us is deceitful and part of a fraud.

If you believe you have been targeted by a fraudulent party, we ask that you immediately get in touch with us via email at security@flyzipline.com upon receiving a suspicious offer or claim.

About Zipline

Zipline is the world’s largest autonomous delivery system, built to provide fast, reliable access to medicine, food, and other essential goods. We design, build, and operate high-performance logistics systems that serve customers across healthcare, retail, and government on four continents.
Our Manufacturing Engineering team builds the production systems that turn complex designs into reliable, scalable hardware. We are looking for engineers who like solving practical problems, moving quickly, and building equipment that works in the real world.

About You and the Role

We are looking for a Lead Production Equipment & Tooling Design Engineer to design the fixtures, workstations, assembly tooling, and production equipment used to build Zipline products at scale.
This role is focused on hardware for the factory floor, with a mix of technical ownership and people leadership. You will lead a small group of equipment and tooling design engineers while remaining deeply hands-on in the work. This role is expected to be approximately 75% individual contributor and 25% leadership, with responsibility for both delivering critical tooling and equipment projects yourself and helping guide the team’s priorities, quality, and execution.
You will work closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Design Engineering, Quality, and Technicians to create tools and equipment that make assembly safer, faster, more repeatable, and easier to maintain. Typical projects may include alignment fixtures, press and torque tooling, ergonomic workstations, poka-yoke devices, handling tools, and end-of-line test equipment for electro-mechanical assemblies.

You will own projects from concept through production release: defining requirements, building CAD, releasing drawings, supporting fabrication, debugging equipment on the line, and improving designs after launch. You will also help develop the team by reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and driving strong engineering standards across tooling and production equipment development.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience designing manufacturing equipment, tooling, or fixtures in a production environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Strong mechanical design skills, including GD&T, tolerance stack-up, mechanism design, and material/process selection.
• Proficiency in 3D CAD; Siemens NX preferred.
• Experience designing and releasing custom tooling for repeatable assembly of electro-mechanical products.
• Hands-on experience supporting fabrication, build, debug, and commissioning of production equipment.
• Familiarity with common factory hardware such as pneumatics, sensors, actuators, linear motion, and machine guarding.
• Understanding of DFM/DFA, ergonomics, poka-yoke, and operator-centered tooling design.
• Experience working cross-functionally with design, quality, technicians, and vendors in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong judgment, ownership, and willingness to spend time on the manufacturing floor solving problems.

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is Salary range: $150,000 - $180,000.00. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. We are always open to negotiation. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

If you’d like to learn more about Zipline and our teams, feel free to check out our Instagram, one of our Reddit AMA’s, or our website!

What Else You Need to Know   

About You and The Role  

Zipline is seeking a Senior Logistics Operator to own outbound logistics operations from our main factory in South San Francisco. This role is responsible for ensuring reliable, high-quality distribution and fulfillment of finished goods and spare parts to commercial deployments and test operations.

You will operate at the center of Zipline’s physical supply chain—owning daily outbound execution while also improving the systems, processes, and decisions that enable scale. You will be expected to handle ambiguity, anticipate downstream impacts, and drive outcomes end-to-end with minimal oversight.

You will own outbound distribution performance, including on-time shipment, fulfillment accuracy, lead times, and cost efficiency—ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes for internal and external customers.

What You'll Do  

You will own both execution and performance of outbound logistics, including:

• Own end-to-end outbound logistics operations, ensuring on-time, accurate, and reliable shipments
• Own and improve key outbound performance metrics, including on-time shipment, order accuracy, lead time, and cost
• Plan and prioritize daily shipment execution across competing demands (commercial, test, internal transfers)
• Anticipate constraints and proactively resolve risks across inventory, packaging, carrier capacity, and documentation
• Coordinate closely with manufacturing, supply chain planning, test, and commercial teams to align on priorities and timelines
• Ensure high-quality order fulfillment (pick, pack, label, documentation) with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Select and coordinate transportation modes (parcel, LTL, FTL, air, hand-carry) based on urgency, cost, and reliability
• Track shipments end-to-end, proactively managing exceptions and ensuring successful delivery outcomes
• Own shipping documentation and compliance requirements (packing lists, commercial invoices, export documentation where applicable)
• Identify root causes of performance gaps (delays, errors, inefficiencies) and implement durable solutions
• Monitor, analyze, and report on outbound metrics; use data to drive continuous improvement and decision-making
• Drive improvements in outbound processes, packaging, workflows, and transportation strategy to improve performance and scalability
• Build scalable processes and standards as Zipline expands its manufacturing and deployment footprint
• Maintain high standards for safety, quality, and operational excellence

What You'll Bring 

Basic Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience in logistics, fulfillment, or supply chain operations
• Experience owning or coordinating outbound shipments and working with transportation providers
• Strong understanding of warehouse operations, inventory systems (WMS/ERP), and shipping workflows
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing or production environments
• Familiarity with domestic and/or international shipping and trade requirements
• Experience with multiple freight modes (parcel, LTL, FTL, air freight)
• Experience identifying root causes and implementing process improvements (Lean or similar methodologies)
• Experience working cross-functionally with planning, operations, and commercial teams

Key Skills and Competencies

• Ownership & Accountability: Takes responsibility for outcomes and performance metrics, not just execution
• Structured Problem Solving: Breaks down ambiguous problems and drives solutions using data and judgment
• Operational Excellence: Deep understanding of logistics operations and attention to detail
• Cross-Functional Influence: Builds strong partnerships and drives alignment across teams
• Bias for Action: Moves quickly while making thoughtful tradeoffs
• Customer Focus: Anticipates needs and ensures reliable delivery outcomes

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods
• Ability to lift and move materials as needed
• Comfortable working in a warehouse and factory environment
• Ability to operate forklift and material handling equipment

What Else You Need to Know   

This role is in-person onsite role based out of our South San Francisco office. 

About the Role

 Zipline is seeking a senior-level electrical engineer to lead the design and development of high-performance power electronics systems that support our drone charging and docking infrastructure.

The Ground Systems team at Zipline is in charge of all the infrastructures on the ground supporting our autonomous delivery drones with automatic docking, battery charging, thermal management, ground communication and preflight check. This role is central to enable our next generation of drone logistics, solving complex challenges in power distribution, power conversion, battery charging, high performance microprocessor, high-speed network communication and system-level integration. You'll bring deep technical expertise in power electronics to help shape Zipline’s global infrastructure as we scale.

In addition, you’ll work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to own the electrical system development from concept to production. This is a hands-on engineering role, ideal for someone who wants to push the limits of hardware in the real world.

What You’ll Do

• Own the electrical design of Zipline’s drone charging systems for volume production through a full design cycle including requirements, prototype, schematic capture, layout, and validation.
• Shape the architecture of Zipline’s next generation product, making impactful design decisions daily, while working with a high level of independence. 
• Lead trade studies, understand competing design priorities, and provide direction and clarity for burning down risk.
• Proactively seek out opportunities for improvement in system and component level design.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with reliability, mechanical, embedded, and systems engineers in all stages of development, including:
• Concept: System requirement, specification, tradeoff
• Design: Schematic capture, PCB layout, system integration
• Validation: Function and reliability test
• Production: DFM, design drawings, manufacturing, EOL test, certification
• Deployment: Troubleshoot field issues, develop rapid mitigations, roll learnings into future design revisions
• Travel occasionally to support supplier and manufacturer visit, product deployment, and field validation

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and testing power electronics hardware (AC-DC, DC-DC, battery charging, etc.)
• Strong understanding of high-voltage power semiconductors like SiC or Si MOSFETs
• Deep knowledge of circuit topologies for AC-DC and DC-DC power conversion
• Design experience with MCU and digital communications (Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART)
• Proficiency in schematic capture, PCB layout, and simulation tools (Altium, SPICE, etc.)
• Familiarity with UL, IEC, and other electrical safety standards
• Strong lab skills and familiarity with test equipment like oscilloscope, digital multimeter, power analyzer, LCR meter, function generator, spectrum analyzer, etc
• Experience with  EMI filter design and inductor/transformer design is a strong plus
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering disciplines
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S.
• Must be able to work at Zipline’s South San Francisco office.

About You and The Role  

Zipline is operating the world’s largest autonomous logistics network—delivering critical medical and commercial goods globally with high reliability, precision, and scale. As we expand into increasingly complex, safety-critical environments, the systems behind our autonomy stack must be robust, adaptable, and deeply integrated—especially at the intersection of perception and deployment.

We're hiring senior and staff perception engineers to join our Droid team, the group responsible for the autonomy that powers Zipline’s backyard delivery experience. This team owns the full stack of offboard and cloud-side perception systems that inform, validate, and augment our onboard autonomy. From generating rich 3D and semantic priors from aerial survey data to learning customer preferences and terrain features at scale, your work will define how we prepare Zipline aircraft to perform mission-critical deliveries in complex, real-world environments.

This is not a research role—you’ll be expected to move fast, ship production-grade systems, and find clever ways to apply state-of-the-art techniques to tangible, high-impact problems.

What You’ll Do

• Own the design and implementation of cloud-side autonomy pipelines that directly support and scale our onboard perception stack.
  
  
• Leverage satellite imagery, aerial surveys, and structured data to build semantic and geometric world models of customer delivery zones.
  
  
• Design and ship tools that predict deliverability, generate high-fidelity priors, and reduce the operational friction of onboarding new customers in new environments. You’ll step in where our on-vehicle capabilities can’t solve the problems we need to solve in order to scale the product.
  
  
• Train and deploy mid- to large-scale models for semantic segmentation, 3D geometry, and learned preference modeling.
  
  
• Design evaluation and validation infrastructure to ensure models behave reliably in the field.
  
  
• Work across engineering to integrate your work into fleet-facing autonomy systems.
  
  
• Lead architectural decisions, drive experimentation, and help the team push the limits of what’s possible with production-grade perception at scale.
  
  

What You'll Bring

• At least 5+ years of experience building and deploying deep learning-based perception systems, particularly in 3D geometry, semantic understanding, or mapping from remote sensing data.
  
  
• Strong understanding of classical computer vision (e.g. camera calibration, epipolar geometry, structure-from-motion) and the ability to blend it with modern ML approaches.
  
  
• Hands-on experience training, iterating on, and optimizing CNN and transformer architectures in production environments.
  
  
• An engineering mindset focused on outcomes over experimentation—you know how to prioritize what's good enough to ship now and what needs to be architected for scale later.
  
  
• Familiarity with building training, data annotation, and evaluation pipelines—not just models.
  
  
• Comfort working across systems: jumping into data pipelines, training infrastructure, or debugging distributed training issues as needed.
  
  
• Experience deploying models in real-world, high-stakes robotics or autonomy applications is a strong plus.
  
  

Why This Team?

• You’ll own real-world autonomy problems that matter—delivering essential goods around the world, in thousands of diverse backyards and environments.
  
  
• You’ll have autonomy and trust to define the roadmap and drive architectural decisions that shape Zipline’s global operations.
  
  
• You’ll work on cutting-edge problems with people who care deeply about quality, systems thinking, and solving hard problems with elegance and clarity.
  
  

A Few More Things

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates from historically underrepresented backgrounds to apply—even if you're not sure you're a perfect fit. If you care about shipping high-impact autonomy systems in production, we want to hear from you.

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is $180,000 - $265,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

ABOUT YOU AND THE ROLE  

Does the prospect of a society-altering challenge - transitioning a first-of-its-kind autonomous robotic system from prototype to volume manufacturing - sound like the type of work that gets you out of bed in the morning? Can you cut through the fog of multiple, competing priorities to focus on the most critical steps required to accomplish both immediate and long-term goals? Are you undeterred by the authority and responsibility that comes with a critical leadership position? If this excites you, you’re who we’re looking for!

This is an in-person role based out of our HQ in South San Francisco requiring 40-60% traveling to and managing critical partners in Asia and North America.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

In this highly visible role, you will own component development qualification activities at suppliers and interact with Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Integrated Planning, and Manufacturing Operations teams to scale Zipline’s manufacturing footprint.

• Plan, organize, direct and conduct industrialization related activities within the Design Engineering , Manufacturing, Material Planning, New Product Introduction (NPI) and Supply Chain teams.
• Participate in Supplier Design for Manufacturability (DFM) reviews, guide suppliers in efficient use of poka-yokes, best methods of gauging, and correct tools or assembly equipment to use.  Provide feedback to Zipline Design teams to ensure alignment and incorporation of feedback during validation build phases and into mass production.
• Lead, track and improve Supplier manufacturing process development and launch readiness for design changes, new products and outsourcing initiatives.
• Lead and implement Supplier improvements in scalability, cost, and quality.
• Guide Suppliers in developing exceptionally robust processes and procedures to promote seamless and efficient production of high quality electrical components.
• Facilitate communication and clarification of technical requirements between Suppliers and Zipline’s Design, Internal Quality and Procurement teams. Collaborate with Zipline Design, Internal Quality and Manufacturing/NPI to determine ideal performance specifications and Supplier metrics.
• Drive improvements utilizing Lean methodologies, Statistical Process Control (SPC), and supplier scorecards.
• Own should-cost modelling and support GSM in pricing/negotiations.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING 

• You have worked for a minimum of 2-15+ years in a fast paced and high growth environment as a Supplier Quality Engineer, Supplier Development Engineer, or Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Process Engineering.
• You have successfully launched into volume production complex manufactured components  and assemblies from prototype through mass production stages.
• You have actively participated in product design efforts and thus know what it takes to transition from prototype to volume production (CAD system experience like Nx, Catia, Solidworks is a bonus).
• You have implemented First Article Inspection criteria, PPAP requirements, and Supplier Quality Scorecard metrics
• You have worked with an established Quality System and applied it to improve your supply base (applicable standards are AS9100/ISO9001/IATF16949).
• You have achieved measurable results with implementing Product Quality Planning with part suppliers and contract manufacturers, both domestic and overseas (applicable examples are Advanced Product Quality Planning, Production Part Approval Process, Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, SPC)
• You can thrive in structured and unstructured environments and are not dissuaded at the prospect of making hard decisions about what is important and urgent against a backdrop of limited resources.

Major Bonuses

• Advanced technical degree with experience developing new products, managing the transition from prototype to mass production, and creating order from chaos
• You are a first principles problem solving - you understand the value of methods such as 8D, 5-WHY, Pareto Charts and Fishbone Diagrams because you have achieved measurable results by using them and influencing others to do the same.
• Technical expertise in at least several of the following disciplines: PCBA Assembly, PCB Fabrication, Carbon Fiber/Composites, Machining/Casting/Extruded/Stamping, Motor Manufacturing  (Lamination, Winding, Magnets, etc), Injection Molding, inspection fixture design, GD&T, metrology (CMM/OMM programming and inspection), manufacturing line setup , electro-mechanical assembly & testing etc
• Experience managing vendors in various geographies with a strong understanding of what manufacturing excellence looks like across a variety of processes. Demonstrated ability to walk into a new potential supplier and rapidly assess industrialization capability, reliability and quality, and safety
• You have a good understanding of and have successfully implemented the correct gated controls within a product development process and achieved the intended results.
• You have strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to drive aggressive timelines with key stakeholders internally and externally.

What Else You Need to Know

This role will require travel 30-60% of the time to critical external partners.

The starting cash range for this role is $120,000 - $247,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

About You and the Role

As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer, you will help build the software foundation for some of the most critical systems on our aircraft. This role is well suited for an engineer who is excited to work close to the hardware, move fluidly across different embedded environments, and take ownership of complex problems from early prototype through field-ready deployment.

You are a strong software engineer first, with deep curiosity about how systems behave in the real world. You are comfortable working across a range of platforms, whether that means writing low-level firmware, developing within an RTOS, or building software for embedded Linux systems. You enjoy debugging difficult issues, especially at the boundary between software, hardware, and system behavior, and you bring a thoughtful, methodical approach to getting to the root cause.

This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment. You are energized by ambiguity, eager to learn new domains quickly, and willing to jump in where needed to help the team move faster. You care about building robust, reliable systems, but you also know how to balance rigor with pragmatism in order to make progress.

Most importantly, you are motivated by the mission. You want to work on meaningful technology, contribute to a small and high-impact team, and help build systems that support Zipline’s long-range platform and broader delivery network.

What You'll Do

• Build the embedded software that runs critical flight and safety functions across our aircraft’s microcontrollers and embedded Linux edge computers.
• Improve the reliability of the flight software system end to end by partnering closely with hardware, systems, and cross-functional engineering teams on fault management, validation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Use flight data and runtime analysis to understand system behavior in the real world, improve confidence in performance, and optimize software where it will have the greatest impact.
• Create the metrics, monitoring, and debugging infrastructure needed to support safe, scalable deployment in the field.
• Develop tools and test capabilities that accelerate early-stage evaluation of new sensors, communication systems, and microcontroller platforms.
• Jump into ambiguous, cross-functional problems and help turn early ideas and prototypes into dependable systems that can scale with the network.

What You'll Bring

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with proficiency in at least one strongly typed language. We use C++, Rust, and Python.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to learn across a wide range of embedded environments, from bare metal and RTOS-based systems to embedded Linux
• Experience building and maintaining real-world deployed embedded systems, and handling the long tail of edge cases to ensure consistent safety, reliability and high performance
• A systems mindset and strong debugging instincts; you know how to break down ambiguous problems and methodically narrow in on root causes.
• Fluency at the hardware/software interface, including bringing up peripherals from schematics and datasheets and debugging prototype hardware.
  Motivation to thrive in a fast-moving, startup environment where engineers wear multiple hats, move quickly, and help shape both the product and the way the team works.
• A mission-driven mindset and excitement for building technology that expands access, improves lives, and supports Zipline’s global delivery network.
  Willingness to work regularly from our South San Francisco headquarters, typically 3–4 days per week, to support close cross-functional collaboration.

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is $125,000 - $210,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Please Note

We have received reports stating that certain individuals are reaching out to people under false pretenses, claiming to be Zipline employees, affiliates, agents, or representatives. They may seek to gain access to your personal information or to acquire money from you by offering fictitious employment opportunities or by claiming that they are contacting you on Zipline’s behalf.

Genuine Zipline employees or representatives will never ask you for money or payment in exchange for employment opportunities or other related services. Any such offer of employment or any other service in exchange for fees that claims to be from us is deceitful and part of a fraud.

If you believe you have been targeted by a fraudulent party, we ask that you immediately get in touch with us via email at security@flyzipline.com upon receiving a suspicious offer or claim.

About You and the Role

The Ground Systems team is a multi-disciplinary hardware and software team responsible for designing and deploying the infrastructure that enables aircraft charging, package loading, and autonomous operations at the heart of Zipline’s drone delivery network.

Within Ground Systems, the Towers team develops the structural and electrical backbone of Zipline’s charging sites. Towers support docks, aircraft operations, power and data distribution, and auxiliary site systems across a wide range of geographies and environmental conditions.

As the Technical Program Manager for Towers, you will drive the development and deployment of complex hardware infrastructure that enables Zipline’s global network to scale. You will work across structural, electrical, validation, manufacturing, and software teams to guide system decisions, resolve technical risks, and ensure that designs translate successfully into real-world builds.

This role sits at the intersection of product definition, systems engineering, and execution. You will help teams navigate complex technical decisions, coordinate across disciplines, and ensure designs translate successfully into working infrastructure deployed in the field.

If you enjoy being close to the hardware and on the front lines of execution and working alongside engineers, technicians, and operations teams to bring complex systems to life, then this role will be a great fit.

We value people who take ownership of outcomes, not just responsibilities; you’ll be identifying problems early, driving decisions, and ensuring work gets completed even when challenges fall outside traditional role boundaries.

On any given week, you might facilitate a cross-team design review, coordinate a prototype build, or work with engineers and technicians to ensure a new tower design installs successfully at a deployment site.

What You’ll Do

• Drive complex infrastructure programs from early concept through real-world deployment, aligning cross-functional teams around clear priorities and execution plans.
• Work across structural, electrical, validation, manufacturing, and software domains to guide system-level decisions and ensure designs translate successfully into real-world builds.
• Coordinate prototypes, builds, and infrastructure deployments, ensuring teams are prepared to execute and capturing lessons learned to improve future programs.
• Identify and resolve technical, operational, and organizational bottlenecks that slow teams down, proactively addressing the areas where progress is most at risk.
• Facilitate technical discussions, design reviews, and trade studies that help engineering teams converge on effective solutions and clear decisions.
• Partner closely with manufacturing and quality teams to ensure infrastructure designs translate into reliable, repeatable production and installation outcomes.
• Develop lightweight tools, documentation, and operational processes (such as decision logs, build playbooks, and workflow improvements) that help engineering teams move faster and operate with clarity.
• Drive clear communication of program status, risks, and decisions across engineering, operations, and leadership stakeholders.
• Work closely with engineers, technicians, and deployment teams to ensure programs successfully translate from design into working systems in the field.

What You’ll Bring

• 2+ years of experience in technical program management or in a hardware engineering, systems engineering, manufacturing, or technical operations role involving complex hardware systems.
• Experience working on complex hardware systems in fields such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, energy, infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, or similar technical environments.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to dive into unfamiliar technical domains in order to understand tradeoffs, guide decisions, and unblock teams.
• A highly execution-oriented mindset;you take ownership of outcomes, follow through relentlessly, and ensure important details don’t fall through the cracks.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional engineering teams and drive complex technical programs forward in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
• Experience improving team effectiveness through documentation, decision tracking, or process improvements that reduce friction for engineering teams.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to guide technical discussions and align teams with different perspectives.
• A collaborative and relationship-driven approach to problem solving, with the ability to build trust across engineering, operations, and external partners.
• Enthusiasm for working closely with engineers, technicians, and deployment teams and being actively involved in bringing complex hardware systems to life.
• Must be eligible to work in the US.
• Must be able to work in person at Zipline’s South San Francisco office.

What Else You Need to Know   

The starting cash range for this role is $130,000 - $165,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

ABOUT YOU AND THE ROLE  

Does the prospect of a society-altering challenge - transitioning a first-of-its-kind autonomous robotic system from prototype to volume manufacturing - sound like the type of work that gets you out of bed in the morning? Can you cut through the fog of multiple, competing priorities to focus on the most critical steps required to accomplish both immediate and long-term goals? Are you undeterred by the authority and responsibility that comes with a critical leadership position? If this excites you, you’re who we’re looking for!

This is an in-person role based out of our HQ in South San Francisco requiring 40-60% traveling to and managing critical partners in Asia and North America.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

In this highly visible role, you will own component development qualification activities at suppliers and interact with Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Integrated Planning, and Manufacturing Operations teams to scale Zipline’s manufacturing footprint.

• Plan, organize, direct and conduct industrialization related activities within the Design Engineering , Manufacturing, Material Planning, New Product Introduction (NPI) and Supply Chain teams.
• Participate in Supplier Design for Manufacturability (DFM) reviews, guide suppliers in efficient use of poka-yokes, best methods of gauging, and correct tools or assembly equipment to use.  Provide feedback to Zipline Design teams to ensure alignment and incorporation of feedback during validation build phases and into mass production.
• Lead, track and improve Supplier manufacturing process development and launch readiness for design changes, new products and outsourcing initiatives.
• Lead and implement Supplier improvements in scalability, cost, and quality.
• Guide Suppliers in developing exceptionally robust processes and procedures to promote seamless and efficient production of high quality electrical components.
• Facilitate communication and clarification of technical requirements between Suppliers and Zipline’s Design, Internal Quality and Procurement teams. Collaborate with Zipline Design, Internal Quality and Manufacturing/NPI to determine ideal performance specifications and Supplier metrics.
• Drive improvements utilizing Lean methodologies, Statistical Process Control (SPC), and supplier scorecards.
• Own should-cost modelling and support GSM in pricing/negotiations.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING 

• You have worked for a minimum of 8 years in a fast paced and high growth environment as a Supplier Quality Engineer, Supplier Development Engineer, or Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Process Engineering.
• You have successfully launched into volume production complex mechanical / electromechanical components  and assemblies from prototype through mass production stages.
• You have actively participated in product design efforts and thus know what it takes to transition from prototype to volume production (CAD system experience like Nx, Catia, Solidworks is a bonus).
• You have worked with an established Quality System and applied it to improve your supply base (applicable standards are AS9100/ISO9001/IATF16949).
• You have achieved measurable results with implementing Product Quality Planning with part suppliers and contract manufacturers, both domestic and overseas (applicable examples are Advanced Product Quality Planning, Production Part Approval Process, Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, SPC)
• You can thrive in structured and unstructured environments and are not dissuaded at the prospect of making hard decisions about what is important and urgent against a backdrop of limited resources.

Major Bonuses

• Japanese-fluent or native speaker
• You are a first principles problem solving - you understand the value of methods such as 8D, 5-WHY, Pareto Charts and Fishbone Diagrams because you have achieved measurable results by using them and influencing others to do the same.
• Technical expertise in at least several of the following disciplines: Motor manufacturing  (Lamination, Winding, Magnets, etc), injection molding with mold flow simulation, machining , inspection fixture design, GD&T, metrology (CMM/OMM programming and inspection), manufacturing line setup , electro-mechanical assembly & testing etc
• Experience managing vendors in various geographies with a strong understanding of what manufacturing excellence looks like across a variety of processes. Demonstrated ability to walk into a new potential supplier and rapidly assess industrialization capability, reliability and quality, and safety
• You have a good understanding of and have successfully implemented the correct gated controls within a product development process and achieved the intended results.
• You have strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to drive aggressive timelines with key stakeholders internally and externally.

What Else You Need to Know

This role will require travel 40-60% of the time to visit Suppliers, and Zipline will work together with you to make sure that this is possible.

The starting cash range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

About you and the role
Does the prospect of a society-altering challenge—owning the material availability and planning backbone to support rapid scaling of a first-of-its-kind autonomous robotic aircraft system—sound like the type of work that gets you out of bed in the morning? Can you cut through complex, competing signals from engineering changes, production ramps, supplier constraints, and demand variability to drive precise, actionable plans that keep manufacturing moving forward? Are you energized by the authority and responsibility of leading material strategy for an entire aircraft platform or major subsystem in a high-visibility, mission-critical role? If this excites you, you’re who we’re looking for! This is an in-person role based out of our HQ in South San Francisco requiring 30-50% travel to manage critical suppliers, partners, and operations in Asia, North America, and other key regions.

What you’ll do
In this highly visible leadership role, you will own the comprehensive material planning and data integrity for either a full aircraft platform or a major subsystem, ensuring seamless alignment between design intent, production needs, supplier commitments, and operational execution. You will serve as the central authority for material-related data and processes, working closely with Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Industrialization, New Product Introduction (NPI), Manufacturing Operations, and Integrated Planning teams to scale Zipline’s manufacturing footprint reliably and at speed.

• Own and maintain the end-to-end material availability strategy, including accurate translation of production schedules and forecasts into supplier requirements, inventory positioning, and risk mitigation plans. 
• Lead ownership and governance of critical master data (BOMs, item attributes, lead times, planning parameters, and engineering change impacts) to ensure MRP and planning systems reflect the current design and production reality. 
• Develop, communicate, and manage forward-looking forecasts and commitments to suppliers, aligning them with Zipline’s aggressive ramp plans, design evolution, and program milestones. 
• Drive the engineering change integration process for materials—assessing supply planning impacts, updating planning data, and minimizing disruptions to supply continuity and production flow. 
• Plan, organize, direct, and execute material readiness activities across Design Engineering, Manufacturing, NPI, and Supply Chain teams to support prototype-to-volume transitions and ongoing rate increases. 
• Monitor and resolve material constraints through rigorous exception management, expediting, market share reallocation, and cross-functional escalation, while maintaining tight control over inventory health. 
• Perform deep data analysis to identify trends, variances, and risks in demand, supply, and inventory; use insights to refine planning logic, reduce shortages/excess, and improve forecast accuracy over time. 
• Collaborate with Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Industrialization to align supplier capabilities, capacities, and performance with Zipline’s evolving needs; define and track inventory and planning metrics for the business.
• Drive continuous improvement in material planning processes through structured problem-solving, statistical analysis, inventory modeling, and performance dashboards to support cost, service, and scalability objectives. 

What you’ll bring

• You have 1-10+ years of experience in a fast-paced, high-growth manufacturing, supply chain or data analytics environment in roles such as Material Planning Manager, Supply Planning Lead, Technical Program Manager, or data analytics/data science positions. 
• You have successfully owned material planning and data integrity for complex, scaling products—ideally high-reliability systems like aircraft, robotics, or automotive platforms—through prototype, NPI, and volume production phases. 
• You are highly proficient with MRP/ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) and have deep experience managing and governing master data, BOMs, routings, and planning parameters in dynamic engineering environments. 
• You have a proven track record of leading change integration processes, translating engineering updates into supply chain actions with minimal disruption. 
• You excel at turning large datasets into actionable insights—using analytics to improve forecast accuracy, reduce inventory risks, and resolve material constraints under tight timelines. 
• You have strong program management skills, with experience driving cross-functional initiatives, managing dependencies, and delivering against aggressive schedules in unstructured, high-stakes settings. 
• You have worked within established supply chain and demand planning frameworks, applying metrics and processes to elevate forecast performance and material availability. 
• You thrive when making tough prioritization calls and trade-offs amid uncertainty, limited resources, and rapidly evolving requirements.

Major Bonuses 

• Advanced degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Data Analytics, Mathematics or related field, with experience scaling high-tech, aerospace, automotive or robotics manufacturing. 
• Demonstrated first-principles problem-solving with tools like root cause analysis, scenario planning, statistical forecasting, or advanced analytics to deliver measurable improvements. 
• Experience in regulated or high-reliability industries with gated development processes and material/program readiness milestones. 
• Strong leadership presence with a history of collaborating with and developing high-performing planning teams in growth-stage companies.

What Else You Need to Know

This role will require travel 0-15% of the time to critical suppliers, manufacturing partners, and regional operations. 

The starting cash range for this role is $118,000 - $259,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Build sophisticated data triage and exploration interfaces that enable users to filter, analyze, and investigate data across millions of records
• Design and develop web front-end visualization tools for Zipline's data pipelines, enabling high-quality analysis to solve critical autonomy problems
• Build scalable and performant backend APIs and realtime data pipelines to support complex querying, filtering, and aggregation across large datasets
• Design and implement efficient database schemas, indexes, and query optimization strategies to ensure performant search and analysis at scale
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to understand workflows and deliver tools that improve operational efficiency and data-driven decision making

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Demonstrated experience building production-grade full stack web applications
• Proven ability to work closely with internal customers and deliver software end-to-end in order to address diverse needs
• Strong experience with data-heavy web applications and performance optimization for large datasetsUnderstanding of database query optimization and working with complex JSON/nested data structures
• Strong user-centered design thinking - ability to iterate with users and translate complex technical requirements into intuitive UX
• Expertise in modern front-end (Typescript, React, Zustand, Storybook, Playwright)
• Experience with backend frameworks for API design (Django, Flask, FastAPI)
• Working knowledge of cloud databases (e.g. AWS RDS, DocumentDB)

What Else You Need to Know   

About You and The Role  

System Risk & Safety Lead 

South San Francisco, California, USA

About Zipline

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced autonomous delivery service, founded to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to 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 including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and commercial products. Our customers include healthcare systems, governments, retailers, and global brands who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide new logistics services at scale.

Our technology goes beyond drones. We deploy integrated logistics infrastructure that strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and enables instant delivery, transforming how essential goods reach people everywhere. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

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.

About You and The Role  

We are looking for a System Risk & Safety Engineer to own and evolve the end‑to‑end risk and safety strategy for Zipline’s aircraft and operations. This is a senior technical leadership role with real authority: you will define what “acceptably safe” means for our systems, ensure we stay ahead of operational scale, and act as a steward of safety across engineering, operations, and the company as a whole.

We start from the risk and the safety target, not from standards. Standards and guidance inform our work, but they do not define safety. This role requires first‑principles thinking, quantitative risk ownership, and the judgment to make difficult safety and risk decisions.

This role is not advisory. You will own the quantitative safety case, drive top‑down safety analyses, and ensure learning from operations continuously feeds back into engineering priorities. Patients, partners, regulators, and the communities we serve rely on us to get this right.

What You'll Do  

• Own the quantitative safety case, including decomposition of top-level safety objectives into system requirements, allocations, and operational limitations
• Own top-down fault tree analysis for safety-related events and hazards, including budget allocation and margin tracking
• Ensure safety analyses remain valid as designs, operations, and scale evolve by monitoring current and emerging risks
• Ensure Zipline learns everything possible from test and commercial events, pulling corrective and preventive actions into engineering and operational priorities
• Grow and lead a small but mighty System Risk and Safety Engineering team

           External Safety Leadership & Communication

• Act as the technical owner for external safety communication, in partnership with certification, legal, and communications teams
• Proactively establish Zipline as an industry leader in safety transparency and trust
• Provide clear, technically grounded support for reactive communications in response to incidents

Basic Requirements:

• BS and/or MS in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience delivering safety‑critical electromechanical systems into real‑world operation
• Demonstrated ownership of system‑level safety analysis and decision‑making
• Strong first‑principles reasoning in the absence of complete regulations or industry guidance
• Experience with hazard analysis techniques such as fault trees, FMEA, and risk modeling
• Comfort engaging deeply with data, models, and operational evidence when needed
• Experience in cross-functional technical leadership of safety critical autonomous systems

Nice to haves:

• Experience working at the intersection of engineering design and live operations
• Exposure to regulator‑facing safety cases or certification efforts
• Experience scaling cross-functional Safety Management Systems

What Else You Need to Know   

The starting cash range for this role is $200,000 - $260,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About You and the Role

The Deployment, Construction, and Service Operations team has the holistic responsibility for transforming bare ground into fully operational Zipline sites. This scope spans the entire site lifecycle, encompassing design engineering, application and project engineering, construction management, site superintendents, and boots-on-the-ground technicians for installation and service.

As the Technical Program Manager for Deployment, Construction, and Service Operations, you will drive the successful, scalable, and efficient rollout of Zipline’s global infrastructure. You will work across the entire cross-functional team—from design to field operations—to ensure that our holistic teams' schedules, roadmaps, tactical execution, and strategic goals are clear, crisp, and in precise alignment with the broader organization's objectives.

This role sits at the intersection of process definition, systems alignment, and execution at scale. You will help teams navigate complex cross-disciplinary decisions, coordinate the end-to-end site lifecycle, and ensure that our field teams have the process and technical clarity needed to deploy and maintain our infrastructure successfully worldwide.

If you enjoy being close to the physical build-out and on the front lines of deployment, working alongside engineers, construction managers, and service technicians to bring complex global systems to life, then this role will be a great fit.

We value people who take ownership of outcomes, not just responsibilities; you’ll be identifying systemic bottlenecks early, driving clarity for complex decisions, and ensuring work gets completed even when challenges fall outside traditional role boundaries.

On any given week, you might facilitate a cross-team roadmap planning session, coordinate the rollout of a new site deployment process, or work with field teams to ensure a critical service operation is executed efficiently.

This role focuses on driving clarity from ambiguity as Zipline scales, acting as the strategic architect for roadmaps that ensure the physical network scales predictably, efficiently, and reliably. The individual will navigate multiple parallel, multi-disciplinary projects across diverse domains, including global site infrastructure rollouts and continuous service improvements. You will join the organization responsible for ensuring we can rapidly and reliably transform design plans into autonomous, operational delivery sites worldwide. This position involves taking ownership of outcomes, resolving process and technical risks across the site lifecycle, and implementing foundational changes to how we deploy, build, and service our global infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Program Leadership: Transform ambiguous goals into actionable, milestone-driven roadmaps, owning the "0 to 1" trajectory for poorly defined programs. Align Design, Engineering, and Service Operations to drive complex infrastructure programs from concept through real-world deployment.
• Deployment and Construction Execution: Coordinate all aspects of prototypes, builds, and infrastructure deployments. Work across structural, electrical, manufacturing, and software domains to ensure designs translate successfully into real-world systems, capturing lessons learned for continuous improvement.
• System-Level Technical Guidance: Facilitate technical discussions, design reviews, and trade studies to help engineering teams converge on effective solutions. Guide system-level decisions across all technical domains to ensure design-to-build success.
• Stakeholder & Risk Management: Drive alignment across cross-functional leadership (Real Estate, Engineering, Construction, and Maintenance). Source and develop relationships with outside organizations, including jurisdictions, utilities, and contractors. Proactively quantify and mitigate pre-construction, construction, and operational risks, balancing urgency with cost and impact.
• Operational Excellence & Feedback Loops: Develop and maintain resourcing plans for parallel projects, proactively identifying dependencies and bottlenecks. Establish mechanisms for Service Operations to feed field data back to Design, ensuring the next generation of infrastructure is designed for deployability and reliability.
• Clarity and Process Improvement: Develop lightweight tools, documentation, and operational processes (e.g., decision logs, build playbooks) to help teams move faster and operate with clarity. Drive clear communication of program status, risks, and decisions across all stakeholders.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience & Mindset:
• 6–10+ years as a Technical Program Manager (TPM) or Program Manager, delivering multi-disciplinary hardware projects.
• Experience with complex hardware systems (aerospace, robotics, energy, infrastructure, etc.).
• Operational intuition; proven success with "0 to 1" transitions and scaling products from prototype to global deployment.
• Highly execution-oriented mindset; owns outcomes and follows through relentlessly.
• Enthusiasm for working closely with engineers, technicians, and deployment teams on complex hardware systems.
• Technical & Program Skills:
• Proven ability to build strategic roadmaps (e.g., 5-year operating plans).
• Strong systems thinking; able to dive into unfamiliar technical domains to guide decisions.
• Proficient in project management tools (Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet) for tracking scope, schedule, and budget.
• Familiarity with Construction and Service Operations is a plus.
• Strong systems thinking; ability to dive into unfamiliar technical domains to understand tradeoffs, guide decisions, and unblock teams.
• Experience improving team effectiveness via documentation, decision tracking, or process improvements.
• Communication & Leadership:
• Exceptional communication; uses passive and active influence to drive positive change.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional engineering teams and drive complex technical programs in fast-paced environments.
• Strong facilitation skills to guide technical discussions and align diverse teams.
• Proven ability to drive complex cross-team deliveries with clear prioritization, sequencing, and risk management.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence diverse technical stakeholders.
• Analytical, data-driven approach; comfortable defining and improving key metrics (build times, data latency, environment reliability/availability).
• Adaptability and resilience; experience introducing and scaling new processes/platforms.
• Influence Without Authority: Exceptional communication skills; uses passive/active influence to drive change in challenging situations.
• Highly execution-oriented; takes ownership, follows through relentlessly, and ensures details are managed.

What Else You Need To Know

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About You and the Role

If you enjoy dissecting the raw measurements from your GNSS receiver, fusing them with IMU, camera, and ground-station data, and feeding everything into a highly robust state estimator, this role would be a perfect opportunity for you to experiment and show your talent. 

Our vehicles operate all around the globe, and must be able to complete their missions reliably in the face of all weather conditions, and even in the event of sensor failures. We need to build a system that handles a wide variety of geographic environments and operates without high-definition maps. We strive to continuously improve our systems so that we never encounter the same problem twice.

You will be expected to stretch your skills and to experiment with new approaches to filtering and measurement. You will design systems to gather data from every mission, so that you can confirm things are working as expected–or so that we can reproduce and fix the problem if not.

What You'll Do

• Extract the maximum value from the observations of our GNSS hardware: integrating all the data available from our ground station network when available, but also building robust systems which handle extended communications outages without a large amount of drift.
• Design systems which deal with intermittent GNSS availability, ensuring our vehicle can make use of both GNSS and vision data, while handling failures in either one at any time.
• Perform trade studies to understand the value of new sensors or processing approaches to vehicle performance and reliability.
• Analyze the performance of systems both in simulation and using data from vehicles operating in the field to find under-performing facets of the system, and devise solutions which bring them up to speed.
• Participate in code review with a strong and capable team of engineers building highly reliable software in the Rust programming language.

What You'll Bring

• A degree in physics or an engineering discipline.
• Experience with state estimation, probabilistic filtering, GNSS RTK and raw measurements, IMU data, sensor modeling and simulation.
• Understanding of calculus, linear algebra, non-linear optimization, and computational numerical methods.
• Experience in building high performance software systems using compiled languages (C/C++/Rust/Ada/etc.).
• The capability to solve complex problems with little supervision as part of an integrated team.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is $200,000 - $265,000; please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. We are always open to negotiation. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About Zipline 

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. 

About the Role

Zipline is building a distributed physical infrastructure network to support autonomous delivery. As the Design Manager / Projects Manager, you will be the technical orchestrator of our expansion engine, responsible for managing the design lifecycle of ground systems across multiple metros in parallel. You will bridge the gap between site acquisition and construction, ensuring that every site has a flawless technical and tactical roadmap and is excuted betaing time and schedule goals.

This is a high-impact role. You aren't just managing drawings; you are accelerating the deployment of a new industry. You will lead the process for technical permit sets—specifically Civil and Electrical—driving them from initial conceptual layouts through rigorous city reviews to final permit release. You must be a "general athlete" who can speak the language of engineers, city planners, and contractors and internal stakeholders to resolve timeline-blocking issues before they impact our launch dates.

What You’ll Do

• Project and Program Ownership
• Own the end-to-end delivery and design process for multiple concurrent site development projects across diverse metros, spanning concept through permit approval and construction drawing issuance.
• Drive and accelerate project schedules, ensuring timely progression through key milestones (concept, permit submission, IFC).
• Proactively identify and resolve schedule constraints, technical roadblocks, design, constructability, and site constraints early to reduce downstream risk and rework.
• Manage project budgets related to design, engineering.
• Track risks, dependencies, and critical path items across the portfolio of projects.
• Design and Technical Workflow Management
• Oversee the creation, refinement, and adjustment of Civil and Electrical engineering drawing sets, managing the workflow from Initial Layouts -> Permit Sets  -> Construction Release.
• Manage and coordinate cross-functional design teams (civil, electrical, structural, architectural) to produce complete, compliant drawing sets.
• Standardize design processes, templates, and specifications to improve scalability and consistency across sites.
• Drive "design for deployability" by providing feedback loops to hardware engineering teams based on field insights and jurisdictional constraints.
• Permitting and Regulatory Tracking
• Oversee permitting submissions across multiple sites, metros, and jurisdictions, , including coordination with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) and utility providers as needed. 
• Act as the primary internal manager of the submission process, incorporating city comments, and securing approvals to fast-track permit release.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration and Handoff
• Act as the primary point of contact across internal stakeholders, external consultants, and third-party partners.
• Partner with Real Estate, Civil/Electrical Engineers, and Construction Managers to ensure site designs are both compliant and "buildable".
• Support contractor bidding and preconstruction activities by ensuring the completeness and clarity of construction documents.
• Coordinate the handoff to construction teams, ensuring alignment on scope, design intent, and execution requirements.

What You’ll Bring

• Foundational Experience and Education
• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Have 6-10+ years of experience in Design Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure Delivery, site development, infrastructure projects, or light commercial construction.
• Prior experience as an Engineer of Record (EOR) or Architect of Record is a plus.
• Experience in industries such as EV charging infrastructure, solar, telecom, or commercial site development is preferred but not required.
• Technical Fluency and Design Knowledge
• Deep understanding of construction drawings and specifications across multiple trades and disciplines.
• Basic knowledge of civil engineering design, including grading, drainage, and utilities, and basic knowledge of electrical site design fundamentals, including distribution and NEC codes.
• Ability to read, interpret, and review technical drawings and specifications across multiple disciplines.
• Project Management and Execution
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent, high-priority, and "0 to 1" projects through design, permitting, and construction documentation phases without losing critical details.
• Proven ability to manage schedules, budgets, and cross-functional dependencies in complex projects.
• Familiarity with project management tools like Procore or Bluebeam is a plus.
• Experience managing external consultants (engineering firms, architects) and driving deliverable accountability.
• Regulatory and Permitting Expertise
• Familiarity with permitting processes, zoning requirements, and coordination with local jurisdictions and utilities.
• Communication and Adaptability
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to interface with technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to translate complex technical decisions into clear business value for customers and simple "actionable tasks" for contractors.
• Experience working in fast-paced, evolving environments where progress must be driven with imperfect or ambiguous information (Resilience and Grit).

• CAD Experience: Familiarity with CAD software (e.g., Autodesk products) or a demonstrated willingness to learn independently

Zipline's "Great" Candidate Criteria

• Good candidates manage the checklist; Great candidates challenge requirements to ensure the best outcome for the company’s scalability.
• Great candidates don't just solve problems; they implement systemic changes to prevent the problem from occurring in the next 100 sites.
• Great candidates treat permits not as a bureaucratic hurdle, but as a strategic milestone to be proactively shaped and accelerated.

What Else You Need To Know

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

What You'll Do

You will be at the center of informing Zipline on the critical environmental conditions that our aircraft must fly in to achieve business goals, whilst owning the automated system that enforces those limits operationally to ensure flight safety and protecting an excellent and informed customer experience.  You will lead the team that counts the following among its core deliverables:

• Design and develop our automated weather monitoring systems to make real-time go/no-go decisions for missions, as well as forecast in-coming weather conditions that would require pausing deliveries; 
• Define the requirements on flyable weather conditions to achieve business performance goals that are achievable in the context of automated risk system performance;
• Set the pace on simulation- and real-world-based weather-related validation strategies, including performance of the weather system risk decisions, operations simulations to determine the role of the weather system on customer experience dynamics, and developing representative but tractable weather models in Zipline’s high fidelity flight simulation tools;
• Enable and maintain strong and unambiguous communication with customer, fulfilment and flight operations teams, setting expectations for the system uptime, on both seasonal and daily timescales
• Drive the development of ground- and air-based sensing to support the risk posture calculations in a scalable and cost-effective way

What You'll Bring

This is a leadership role on a team that is core to Zipline’s success, and is therefore not an entry level position. Success in this role will require a disciplined and first-principles approach, with a deep connection and understanding at the system and product levels.  You’ll be naturally curious and able to work seamlessly with individuals and teams both inside and outside of your core engineering / scientific discipline, as well as regulatory, operations and business partners.  Experience in many of the following areas are critical to your ability to contribute at the right level:

• You will have a minimum of 5+ years of industry experience, and either be a proven people leader or clearly ready to own and develop a small team (3-5 direct reports).
• Advanced proficiency with scientific python and libraries commonly used for data analysis, e.g., Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, and Matplotlib, XArray, NETCDF.  In addition, you’ll be able to learn new languages and libraries for use in daily work (eg. Rust, C++), and ideally have cloud-native experience with Kubernetes and/or AWS.
• Familiarity with geospatial and meteorological datasets, formats, and tools; in particular you’ll understand how to efficiently process large datasets across distributed systems and ideally have experience with kafka or other streaming data systems
• As well as a strong understanding of descriptive statistics, probability and linear algebra, you will have mastered a wide range of machine learning and statistical techniques, and developed an intuition for what tool to apply in every situation
• Adept at summarizing large datasets visually that make complex results understandable at a glance to different audiences.  You will be able to find creative ways to take the uncertainty of weather prediction and turn it into certainty for the business.
• Excellent understanding of meteorology and climatology, and an ability to communicate the underlying physics and their challenges to a broad audience
• You’ll be highly self-directed; able to drive a roadmap and ruthlessly prioritize, balancing a core roadmap against the emerging needs of a fast-scaling and complex system.  You’ll also be proven in setting the pace of a small team, striving to continuously improve the development tools and processes and help folks around you work smarter
• Experience with aircraft flight and aviation weather and regulation would be helpful, although you will work closely with other leaders of our flight sciences teams so a willingness to learn this rapidly will suffice.  An ability to manipulate the weather would be advantageous, but is not essential.

What Else You Need to Know  

This role is based out of our South San Francisco HQ with minimum of 5 days per week in office. Must be eligible to work in the US and travel globally as needed

The starting cash range for this role is $235,000 to $255,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About You and The Role  

About You and The Role  

About You and The Role

Zipline is entering a period of rapid expansion across the U.S., and we’re seeking a seasoned Land Use & Real Estate Counsel to lead our efforts in securing and maintaining land use and zoning approvals for customer sites and charging infrastructure nationwide. This role sits at the intersection of municipal, environmental, commercial, and property law. You will partner closely with Zipline’s operations, real estate, and customer success teams to enable the rapid and repeatable deployment of Zipline’s uncrewed aerial systems and related infrastructure across metropolitan regions.

This position reports to Zipline’s Deputy General Counsel and is based at our South San Francisco HQ. 

What You'll Do

• Develop and execute Zipline’s strategy for securing operationally critical land use, zoning, and permitting approvals in key U.S. markets—including Texas, Arizona, and other major metropolitan areas.
• Interpret, draft, and analyze municipal ordinances affecting Zipline’s operations and site development.
• Build and maintain relationships with municipalities, planning and zoning commissions, city councils, and local staff.
• Support community engagement efforts and represent Zipline in public hearings and stakeholder meetings regarding land use and zoning matters.
• Address and resolve complex property law matters, including easements, boundary lines, and access rights.
• Partner with Operations, Real Estate, and Engineering teams to ensure legal strategies align with technical and operational realities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor within the Legal Team, stepping in to address novel or urgent state and local legal issues as Zipline’s business evolves.

What You'll Bring  

• A strong command of U.S. land use, zoning, and municipal law, with experience obtaining complex or first-of-their-kind regulatory approvals.
• At least 5 years of relevant legal practice, ideally including a mix of law firm and in-house experience.
• Persuasive written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage regulators and community stakeholders with diplomacy and credibility.
• Pragmatic, business-oriented risk assessment skills, with the ability to make confident, independent judgment calls and escalate when appropriate.
• A proven track record of delivering high-stakes regulatory approvals under tight timelines, while maintaining composure and focus.
• A proactive, resourceful mindset with an eagerness to tackle novel challenges and shape scalable regulatory strategies.
• Unwavering ethics, strong relationship-building instincts, and the ability to collaborate effectively across diverse teams.

What Else You Need to Know   

• JD Degree required
• Member in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar 
• Must be eligible to work in the United States

The starting cash range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About You and The Role  

The Zipline Legal Team is searching for an experienced, technically-sound, and process-oriented Senior Counsel who will smoothly and repeatedly close material revenue contracts alongside our Sales Team, and a range of other contracts.  In this role, you will be a senior lawyer on sales and business development agreements, working especially closely with the Sales, Operations, and Finance Teams on scoping, drafting, negotiating, and closing agreements across a number of core business verticals. You’ll pair your surgical legal drafting and deft negotiation skills with your tireless project management skills to capture and execute strategic commercial agreements that the business is proud of. You’ll be a core member of a strong, friendly, passionate, in-house legal function and will report to Zipline’s Deputy General Counsel–Head of Commercial.

What You'll Do  

• Develop a deep understanding of Zipline’s product and service offerings, business and sales strategy, mission and values. 
• Draft, structure, review, negotiate, advise, and close material customer agreements and strategic partnerships across all of Zipline’s Sales Teams and business verticals, including food, retail, and healthcare. 
• Independently manage the entire customer contracting process for deals that you support–from initial scoping to final execution, working cross-functionally with almost every business unit at Zipline, including the Sales, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, Aviation, and Operations Teams. 
• Contribute to improving Zipline’s deal templates and forms, taking into consideration the business’s goals and any factors unique to the customers that the applicable agreement is targeting.
• Help build and socialize thoughtful, repeatable, and rigorous deal processes that bring predictability and calm to your clients on the Sales Team and streamline and simplify deals. 
• Think outside the box when a strategic transaction calls for it, bringing simple and elegant contractual solutions to potentially convoluted and chaotic situations. 
• Build genuine relationships with each member of the Sales and Operations Teams so that you are in sync when closing contracts.
• When called upon, creatively and efficiently address novel questions and commercial needs that arise across Zipline’s global business.

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years of relevant legal experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house.
• JD Degree is required.
• Member in good standing of at least one state bar.
• A deep understanding of and familiarity with commercial and revenue contracts, including outbound service agreements, in direct support of sales and go-to-market initiatives.
• Clear, cogent, and pragmatic contract drafting skills that you are a passionate and prideful nerd about. 
• You thrive in high-pressure and time-sensitive situations, and love the feeling of undramatically and quickly closing critical revenue contracts for and with the business.
• Effective, tactful, friendly, and high-integrity negotiation skills, both verbally and in writing.
• Strong communication and project management skills that you deploy when leading the charge to close a deal.
• Strong time management skills that enable you to set aggressive but realistic deadlines that you meet (and usually beat), even with competing priorities.
• Empathy for your internal customers and stakeholders as well as the customers that you’re negotiating against.
• Confidence to make independent judgment calls with conviction–and the instincts to recognize when issues require escalation or input from others.
• You don’t overthink issues, rabbit-hole on theoretical risk, or over-negotiate against yourself.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States.

What Else You Need to Know   

The starting cash range for this role is $170,000-$210,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About You and The Role 

What You'll Do

• Develop dynamic models of complex systems and components that are core to our high fidelity 6DOF simulation.
• Analyze and improve the performance of existing and future vehicle designs through a combination of simulation and flight tests.
• Play a key role in deriving and verifying requirements for both hardware components and software interfaces, while balancing the technical need and broader product prerequisites as well as safety and regulatory standards.
• Identify and develop processes and tools to improve efficiency and protect against regressions.
• Design and implement onboard integrity tests to monitor how well the vehicle is flying and aid in understanding off-nominal performance and delivery failures, both in research and validation flights, as well as in the production fleet.
   
• Work in a high performing team, sharing your experience and improving efficiency while developing the next generation of logistics.

What You'll Bring

• Minimum of 4+ years of industry experience designing control, estimation algorithms and implementing them into embedded systems with the help of simulation tools to analyze performance
• Professional experience in one or more of the following areas: flight dynamics and control, dynamic modeling of complex physical systems, model identification, statistical analysis. Ideally you will have used your skills in these areas to successfully ship one or more complex products.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and proficiency in both simulation practices and hands-on work with hardware, spanning from bench-level experimentation to comprehensive flight tests.
• Software skills in both technical computing (MATLAB, SciPi, Julia, etc) and embedded software (Rust, C, C++), with experience working in a large, complex, multi-developer environment.

What Else You Need to Know  

About You and The Role  

Zipline is operating the world’s largest autonomous logistics network—delivering critical medical and commercial goods globally with high reliability, precision, and scale. As we expand into increasingly complex, safety-critical environments, the systems behind our autonomy stack must be robust, adaptable, and deeply integrated—especially at the intersection of perception and deployment.

We're hiring senior and staff perception engineers to join our Droid team, the group responsible for the autonomy that powers Zipline’s backyard delivery experience. This team owns the full stack of offboard and cloud-side perception systems that inform, validate, and augment our onboard autonomy. From generating rich 3D and semantic priors from aerial survey data to learning customer preferences and terrain features at scale, your work will define how we prepare Zipline aircraft to perform mission-critical deliveries in complex, real-world environments.

This is not a research role—you’ll be expected to move fast, ship production-grade systems, and find clever ways to apply state-of-the-art techniques to tangible, high-impact problems.

What You’ll Do

• Own the design and implementation of cloud-side autonomy pipelines that directly support and scale our onboard perception stack.
  
  
• Leverage satellite imagery, aerial surveys, and structured data to build semantic and geometric world models of customer delivery zones.
  
  
• Design and ship tools that predict deliverability, generate high-fidelity priors, and reduce the operational friction of onboarding new customers in new environments. You’ll step in where our on-vehicle capabilities can’t solve the problems we need to solve in order to scale the product.
  
  
• Train and deploy mid- to large-scale models for semantic segmentation, 3D geometry, and learned preference modeling.
  
  
• Design evaluation and validation infrastructure to ensure models behave reliably in the field.
  
  
• Work across engineering to integrate your work into fleet-facing autonomy systems.
  
  
• Lead architectural decisions, drive experimentation, and help the team push the limits of what’s possible with production-grade perception at scale.
  
  

What You'll Bring

• At least 5+ years of experience building and deploying deep learning-based perception systems, particularly in 3D geometry, semantic understanding, or mapping from remote sensing data.
  
  
• Strong understanding of classical computer vision (e.g. camera calibration, epipolar geometry, structure-from-motion) and the ability to blend it with modern ML approaches.
  
  
• Hands-on experience training, iterating on, and optimizing CNN and transformer architectures in production environments.
  
  
• An engineering mindset focused on outcomes over experimentation—you know how to prioritize what's good enough to ship now and what needs to be architected for scale later.
  
  
• Familiarity with building training, data annotation, and evaluation pipelines—not just models.
  
  
• Comfort working across systems: jumping into data pipelines, training infrastructure, or debugging distributed training issues as needed.
  
  
• Experience deploying models in real-world, high-stakes robotics or autonomy applications is a strong plus.
  
  

Why This Team?

• You’ll own real-world autonomy problems that matter—delivering essential goods around the world, in thousands of diverse backyards and environments.
  
  
• You’ll have autonomy and trust to define the roadmap and drive architectural decisions that shape Zipline’s global operations.
  
  
• You’ll work on cutting-edge problems with people who care deeply about quality, systems thinking, and solving hard problems with elegance and clarity.
  
  

A Few More Things

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates from historically underrepresented backgrounds to apply—even if you're not sure you're a perfect fit. If you care about shipping high-impact autonomy systems in production, we want to hear from you.

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is $180,000 - $265,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About the Strategic Finance Team

Zipline’s Strategic Finance team sits at the center of the company’s commercial strategy, partnering closely with Go-to-Market, Marketing, Product, and Engineering to guide critical decisions and build the financial foundation for scale.

The team drives pricing, forecasting, partner deal structuring, user and partner economics, and scenario planning across both core revenue channels and emerging products like Zipline Marketplace.

Blending analytical rigor with cross-functional influence and an entrepreneurial mindset, Strategic Finance uncovers growth opportunities, improves efficiency, and strengthens long-term business value. The team is based at Zipline’s South San Francisco headquarters in an in-person/hybrid environment.

The Role

As a Strategic Finance Intern supporting Operations Finance, you will play a key role in helping Zipline understand and optimize the financial performance of our global operations. You’ll work closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data teams to build analyses, streamline reporting, and develop insights that directly influence strategic and operational decisions.

This role is ideal for someone who loves solving complex problems, is comfortable with data, and wants hands-on exposure to how a hardware-enabled, technology-driven business operates.

What You'll Do

• Support Operations Finance with metric development, reporting, forecasting, and financial modeling
• Query and analyze large operational datasets using SQL (Snowflake experience a plus)
• Build repeatable dashboards and tools in Excel, Google Sheets, and BI platforms to drive visibility into performance
• Partner with operations leaders to understand drivers of cost, efficiency, and performance across global sites
• Support ad-hoc analyses related to operational efficiency, unit economics, and scaling strategies
• Assist in month-end processes, variance analysis, and KPI reviews
• Contribute to cross-functional initiatives involving Supply Chain, Product, and Data teams
• Help improve internal processes by identifying gaps and implementing simple automation or workflow improvements

What You'll Bring

• A strong analytical mindset with comfort getting into the details and understanding how complex operations function
• Experience with SQL, relational databases, and working with large datasets (Snowflake preferred; experience with dbt or modern data stacks is a plus)
• High proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets; ability to build and manage structured and dynamic financial models
• Strong communication skills—comfortable interacting with cross-functional partners who have diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• Ability to work with imperfect information and drive clarity in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational skills and a desire to create processes that bring structure and accountability
• Interest in hardware-focused or technology-enabled businesses; experience in technology, healthcare devices, or operations-heavy industries is a plus
• Knowledge of financial statements, accounting fundamentals, and core financial analysis concepts (e.g., unit economics, scenario analysis, return on capital)
• A “general athlete” mentality—eager to jump into a wide variety of problems and learn quickly
• Prior experience in operational finance, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, or analytics is a plus, but not required

What Else You Should Know

Our internships are full-time positions, in-person at our South San Francisco or Dallas office. We will host our Summer 2026 interns from May or June to August. 

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future.

Candidates are limited to three (3) applications within a 30-day period.

The starting cash range for this internship is $35 - 39/ hour. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and working location. The total compensation package for each role may also include: a housing stipend; overtime pay; relocation support; paid sick time; and more. 

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your point of contact at Zipline know if you require any accommodations throughout your interview process.

About You and The Role  

About You and The Role  

In this role, you will own day-to-day shipping, receiving, and inventory operations at the facility. You’ll ensure materials are accurately received, stored, tracked, picked, packed, and shipped with perfect quality and in full compliance with safety standards. You will maintain warehouse organization, manage dock activities and material handling equipment, perform cycle counts, and proactively identify and resolve inventory discrepancies.

You will also build strong working relationships with OEMs, internal teams, and vendors — troubleshooting shipment and inventory issues as they arise and driving them to resolution. Success in this role requires strong attention to detail, operational discipline, and a customer-first mindset.

What You'll Do  

• Execute shipping and receiving functions at the facility 
• Manage dock and warehouse organization, material handling equipment, and shipping supplies 
• Handle issues related to inventory handling and material conveyance.
• Allocate and organize storage locations according to requirements 
•  Sort inventory according to established procedures 
• Mark inventory with identifying information 
• Update and maintain inventory records and databases 
• Complete regular cycle counts of inventory 
• Identify potential inventory shortages and communicate with relevant stakeholders 
• Pick and prepare orders to be shipped 
• Ensure proper packaging and labeling of shipments 
• Ensure perfect quality of outbound orders 
• Adhere to all safety standards and operating procedures 
• Build and grow relationships with OEM,  internal customers and vendors 
• Troubleshoot inventory and shipment issues and customer complaints that arise and work to solve them

What You'll Bring 

• 2-5 years Logistics and/or warehouse experience; preferably within an international supply chain organization 
• Excellent customer service skills 
• Initiative to scope, start, and drive projects and tasks to completion 
• Ability to openly seek advice, guidance, and enlist support as needed 
• Effective communication, including writing, speaking and interpersonal communication 
• Good collaboration and teamwork abilities 
• Expert inventory management 
• Proficiency in relevant computer applications including MS Word and Excel ● Familiarity with warehouse management system (WMS) technology 
• Familiarity with material handling equipment (forklift, pallet jack) 
• Must be able to work with minimum supervision 
• Must be eligible to work in the US 
• Valid driver's license in good standing

Physical Requirements 

• Able to lift and move inventory up to 50lbs 
• Able to bend and stretch 
• Able to stand for prolonged periods
• Able to walk distances

What Else You Need to Know   

This role is in-person onsite role based out of our South San Francisco office. 

What Else You Need to Know   

About The Role

We are very excited to be hiring a newly created Indirect Tax Manager role to join our fast-paced Accounting and Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading drone logistics company that will tap into your existing knowledge while making meaningful contributions to the growth of the company. You will lead and manage the indirect tax area including but not limited to sales/use tax, property taxes, excise tax, etc. The Indirect Tax Manager will report to the Head of Tax.

What You'll Do

• Provide tax consultation to various business units and functions
• Research and resolve indirect tax issues with vendors and customers
• Prepare and file all indirect tax returns
• Prepare audit ready workpapers
• Prepare monthly tax account reconciliation
• Prepare tax technical research memo to support our tax position
• Manage and maintain the Avalara tax engine and reporting system
• Manage and maintain the indirect tax calendar to ensure timely filing of all tax returns and payments
• Lead and manage all indirect tax audits
• Lead all systems related effort that impacts the indirect tax area
• Collaborate with Head of Tax to develop and implement tax planning ideas
• Collaborate with the Accounting and Finance teams to address all indirect tax related matters
• Develop and lead internal indirect tax training sessions
• Provide tax development and updates to the Head of Tax and other business functions
• Register and maintain sales/use tax permits as new locations are added
• Work on ad hoc indirect tax projects as necessary
• Liaise and manage relationship with outside tax advisors
• Continue to enhance and improve internal control in the indirect tax area

What You'll Bring

• At least 7 years of indirect tax experience working with a multinational company with operations in multiple states and/or similar experience from an international public accounting firm
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Graduate degree or professional certification is a plus
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while being flexible as priority changes
• Experience with Avalara and NetSuite is highly preferred
• Experience with marketplace facilitator tax laws is a plus
• Proficient with other software such Checkpoint, Microsoft Office Suite, and/or Google G Suite specifically Excel and Google Sheet. 

What Else You Need to Know

This role is based out of our South San Francisco HQ.  Must be eligible to work in the US and travel globally as needed.

The starting cash range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About You and The Role

Zipline builds and operates fleets of delivery drones to get medicine to those who need it, fast, regardless of where they live. To power this, the software team is building out the long term scalable solutions to expand rapidly while empowering our world class distribution centers to serve their customers as fast as possible.

Zipline’s security problems aren’t “website got pwned” problems (though those exist too). They’re “real-world autonomy + robotics + global operations + cloud software + regulated/health-adjacent workflows” problems. You’ll partner deeply with software, infrastructure, and (where relevant) embedded/autonomy teams to reduce real risk in real systems. We have a large attack surface 

Our ideal candidate works well in startup environments, wears many hats, and collaborates across engineering disciplines. You’ll join a small, high-ownership security team with significant influence over how we scale.

A note on our modern reality and agentic tooling: 

Engineering teams are increasingly adopting LLM copilots and agentic tools to move faster. That’s useful, until an “assistant” becomes an unmonitored automation path to secrets, sensitive data, or privileged actions. (Think: “obedient intern with production credentials.”) Industry guidance is converging on practical frameworks like the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (including a profile for generative AI) and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, which explicitly calls out risks like prompt injection, insecure plugin design, and excessive agency. 

In this role, you’ll help Zipline safely leverage these tools while containing them so they don’t quietly “rewrite the threat model”.

This is a Hybrid onsite role - you will frequently have conversations in person at our HQ in South San Francisco.

What You'll Do

• Own security outcomes for critical parts of Zipline’s application and cloud ecosystem (not by writing policy docs that no one reads, but by shipping controls and enabling teams).
• Partner with engineering teams on secure architecture, threat modeling, and design reviews for services that must be correct, reliable, and defensible under real-world operational pressure.
• Help us build and scale a pragmatic secure SDLC – CI/CD hardening, dependency/supply-chain controls,  secrets management, and code review patterns that don’t slow teams down.
• Improve cloud security posture end-to-end: IAM and least privilege, network/service-to-service trust, key management, logging/telemetry, runtime detection, and incident-ready auditability.
• Drive vulnerability management that actually closes risk: triage, exploitability analysis, remediation partnerships, and verification.
• Help build and exercise incident response: playbooks, tabletop exercises, logging requirements, and “know it happened / know what changed” operational discipline.
• Support data classification and access control models aligned to how Zipline operates (including partner/customer interfaces and global operations).
• Support external penetration tests and turn results into durable improvements, not whack‑a‑mole patches.
• Contribute to security compliance efforts (e.g., SOC 2 / ISO 27001) in a way that strengthens engineering
• Secure AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows (this is explicitly part of the job):
• define safe patterns for copilots/LLM tools used in development and ops
• implement guardrails for sensitive data exposure and output handling
• prevent “agentic overreach” (over‑privileged tools, unsafe tool-calling, silent action-taking)
• build monitoring/auditing around AI tool use where it matters
  
  

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating security controls for large-scale production systems (application, cloud, and infrastructure security).
• Strong security engineering chops with evidence you can reduce risk in production systems (not just talk about it).
• Hands-on ability to write and ship code/tools in Python, Go, or similar (you’re expected to build, not just review).
• Practical experience securing microservice architectures and modern cloud stacks (containers/Kubernetes, IAM, CI/CD, secrets, logging).
• Comfort operating as a technical leader without authority: you can persuade, teach, and unblock - not police.
• A skeptical mindset: you naturally ask “what’s the failure mode?” and “how will this be abused?” before shipping changes.
• Familiarity with the security failure modes of LLM-enabled systems (or the willingness to learn fast), including risks called out by OWASP such as prompt injection, insecure output handling, insecure plugin design, and excessive agency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience spanning multiple engineering domains (web app + cloud infra + embedded/robotics/autonomy).
• Experience building developer-friendly security platforms (internal libraries, paved roads, CI integrations, Public Key Infrastructure).
• Track record of being an effective security “evangelist” (i.e., enabling good behavior with good tools and defaults, not fear).
• Experience designing guardrails for internal AI/agent usage (policy + technical controls + auditing), especially in environments where safety and reliability are non-negotiable.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and how failures actually happen (partial outages, weird retries, cascading dependencies, misconfigurations, permissions drift).

What Else to Know

This will be an in-office or hybrid role based out of our South San Francisco HQs. 

The starting cash range for this role is $230,000 - $275,000; please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. We are always open to negotiation. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply.