Test Engineer, Dropbox

🏢 Summary: Test Engineering Manager role focused on leading end-to-end validation and test strategy for Zipline’s Dropbox autonomous delivery system. The position involves managing test engineering teams, building automated test infrastructure, driving reliability and failure analysis, and ensuring safe scalable deployment of electromechanical and robotic products. 🗂️ Requirements: Experience managing test/validation engineers for electromechanical or robotic products, Expertise in test rigs, fixtures, instrumentation, DAQ, and automated test equipment, Knowledge of mechanical hardware, sensors, electronics, embedded software, and controls, Experience with experimental design and statistical analysis, Ability to conduct root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions, Experience building test automation and analysis tools, Strong written and verbal communication skills, Ability to work onsite in South San Francisco, Experience with system-level validation for hardware and software products, Ability to scale test capabilities for production and fleet deployment 📃 Skills: Python, SQL, DAQ, Automation, Instrumentation, Electronics, Sensors, Embedded, Controls, Robotics, Telemetry, Statistics, Hardware, Manufacturing, Reliability 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role Zipline builds and operates autonomous delivery systems that move critical goods reliably and safely. Dropbox is our customer-facing package-loading product that integrates mechatronics, sensors, electronics, access control, user interaction, and environmental protection to enable untrained users to hand off packages to our droids. The Test Engineering Manager for Dropbox will lead a team that proves Dropbox is safe, reliable, and production-ready across development, qualification, and fleet deployment. You will own the test strategy, infrastructure, automation, and system-level evidence that determine whether Dropbox can scale to hundreds or thousands of sites, and you will convert field learnings into design and process changes that reduce failures in the field. What You'll Do - Own end-to-end test and validation for Dropbox: define measurable success criteria, test coverage, traceability, and exit gates from prototype through production and fleet rollout. - Lead and grow a team of test engineers: set technical standards, assign clear ownership, hire, and mentor engineers to deliver test scope on schedule. - Translate product requirements, hazards, customer workflows, and failure modes into quantifiable test requirements and pass/fail criteria. - Design and execute component, subsystem, and system-level tests that measure functionality, safety, reliability, lifetime, environmental exposure, misuse, packaging variation, and fault recovery. - Build and maintain automated test stands, fixtures, instrumented rigs, DAQ, and analysis tooling to increase test throughput and repeatability. - Define sample sizes, acceleration factors, confidence levels, and statistical acceptance criteria to produce defensible reliability evidence. - Correlate lab and accelerated tests with production and field telemetry to validate test fidelity and update test profiles based on operational data. - Establish regression and release-readiness testing that reliably catches hardware and software regressions before field deployment. - Lead structured failure investigations and root-cause analysis; own corrective actions that feed into design, manufacturing, and deployment changes. - Partner daily with Mechanical, Electrical, Embedded Software, Systems, Reliability, Manufacturing, and Operations to remove test-blockers and align release criteria. - Deliver dashboards and metrics (coverage, MTBF, P95 latency for critical operations, failure rate per 1,000 cycles, test throughput) that make readiness and risk visible to stakeholders. - Improve lab utilization, automation levels, and the speed at which the organization converts test evidence into product decisions. What You'll Bring - Proven experience managing a team of test/validation engineers for complex electromechanical or robotic products through development, qualification, production, and field deployment. - Hands-on expertise designing test rigs, fixtures, instrumentation, DAQ, and automated test equipment; comfortable operating and iterating lab hardware. - Strong systems judgment across mechanical hardware, sensors, electronics, embedded software, controls, and user interactions. - Demonstrated skill with experimental design and statistical analysis: defining sample sizes, confidence intervals, acceleration models, and correlating lab-to-field performance. - Track record driving failure investigations to a root cause and implementing design or process changes that measurably reduce field failures. - Experience building test automation and analysis tools (Python, SQL, or equivalent) and authoring reproducible test reports and dashboards. - Clear written and verbal communication; able to present tradeoffs and readiness recommendations to engineering and product leadership. - Operate at the intensity required by customer-facing, unattended field systems: prioritize rapid learning while enforcing safety and reliability gates. - Location & logistics: this is an in-person role based in South San Francisco; regular onsite presence in the lab is required. Role will include travel to suppliers, manufacturers, test sites, and deployment sites as needed. - Must-haves: proven ownership of system-level validation for hardware+software products and demonstrated ability to scale test capabilities to support production ramp and fleet expansion. 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!

🏢 Summary: Senior Mechanical Engineer role focused on designing and owning electromechanical assemblies for Zipline’s autonomous Dropbox delivery system. The position covers end-to-end mechanical development, validation, manufacturing support, and field reliability improvements for customer-facing unattended hardware. The role requires hands-on collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and operations in a high-reliability production environment. 🗂️ Requirements: End-to-end electromechanical hardware development experience, Mechanism and structural design expertise, Advanced CAD proficiency, GD&T and tolerance stack-up experience, FEA and mechanical analysis skills, Prototype and validation testing experience, Root-cause analysis and corrective action experience, Integration of PCBAs, motors, sensors, and embedded controls, Manufacturing and supplier collaboration experience, Ability to work on-site in South San Francisco, Willingness to travel for suppliers, testing, and deployments 📃 Skills: CAD, GD&T, FEA, DFM, DFA, PCBAs, Sensors, Actuators, Transmissions, Bearings, Kinematics, Telemetry, Embedded, Manufacturing, BOMs 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role Zipline builds and operates autonomous delivery systems that move critical goods reliably and safely. Dropbox is our customer-facing package-loading product that integrates mechatronics, sensors, electronics, access control, user interaction, and environmental protection so untrained users can hand off packages to our droids. Failures or slow service at Dropbox directly increase field escalations, maintenance cost, and delivery delays—this role changes fleet uptime and customer trust. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer on Dropbox, you will own the mechanical architecture and detailed design of key assemblies through validation, production ramp, and fleet operation. You will make architecture-level tradeoffs that balance safety, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability for an unattended field-facing product. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role responsible for designs that must meet high-cycle life, environmental exposure, and low-maintenance targets in real-world sites. What You'll Do - Own end-to-end mechanical scope for Dropbox assemblies: requirements, architecture, detailed CAD, drawings, specifications, BOMs, and production release. - Define success metrics for your systems and drive design choices to meet them. - Translate customer workflows, hazard analyses, and droid interfaces into mechanical requirements and verified designs. - Lead trade studies and system-level decisions across safety, reliability, cycle time, environmental performance, serviceability, DFM, DFA, cost, and schedule. - Create GD&T, datum strategy, alignment schemes, and tolerance stack-ups across complex electromechanical interfaces. - Perform first-principles analysis, hand calculations, kinematic analysis, fatigue and wear assessments, and FEA. - Integrate actuators, transmissions, bearings, sensors, PCBAs, connectors, harnesses, seals, and embedded controls into reliable assemblies. - Partner with Electrical, Embedded Software, Systems, Test, Reliability, Manufacturing, Operations, and Safety teams. - Prototype rapidly, run experiments and test campaigns, and use data to reduce technical risk. - Lead investigations of prototype, production, and field failures through root-cause analysis and corrective actions. - Work directly with suppliers, NPI, and Manufacturing to implement DFM/DFA changes and qualify production processes. - Use fleet telemetry, service records, and field observations to prioritize design improvements. - Mentor engineers and improve mechanical design best practices and documentation quality. What You'll Bring - Proven end-to-end ownership of electromechanical hardware through concept, validation, production ramp, and field deployment. - Deep mechanism and structure design experience with actuators, transmissions, bearings, seals, and high-cycle moving assemblies. - Strong mechanical fundamentals including hand calculations, FEA grounding, kinematics, bolted joints, materials, and tolerance analysis. - Advanced CAD skills managing system-level assemblies and drawing releases. - Demonstrated GD&T mastery and practical tolerance-stack experience. - Prototyping and testing experience with ability to convert data into design decisions. - Track record resolving complex hardware failures through disciplined root-cause analysis. - Experience integrating PCBAs, wiring harnesses, motors, sensors, and embedded controls into mechanical designs. - Experience working with suppliers and manufacturing to ship high-volume, high-reliability hardware. - Ability to work in-person in South San Francisco with regular travel to suppliers, manufacturers, test locations, and deployment sites. - Comfort working in customer-facing field systems with rapid escalation and production-support demands. - Strong engineering judgment, documentation discipline, and data-driven troubleshooting. What Success Looks Like - Delivered mechanical releases meeting reliability targets and production yield goals. - Reduced field service events and mean time to repair for owned assemblies. - Established validation coverage and supplier processes that shorten failure-to-fix cycles and lower service costs. What Else You Need to Know Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type protected by law. We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.

🏢 Summary: Senior Product Integration Engineer role focused on integrating autonomous drone delivery hardware and software into real-world customer environments. The position involves defining product requirements, deployment workflows, firmware behaviors, safety constraints, and scalable site configurations for Zipline’s Dropbox delivery system. The role requires close collaboration across hardware, firmware, deployment, and partner teams to ensure safe, repeatable, and efficient deployments. 🗂️ Requirements: Experience integrating electromechanical or autonomous systems, Experience translating customer workflows into technical requirements, Knowledge of mechanical hardware, sensors, electronics, firmware, software, and controls, Experience defining state machines and system-level requirements, Ability to read building plans and electrical diagrams, Experience evaluating physical and environmental site constraints, Experience collaborating with firmware teams, Ability to reason about safety hazards and mitigations, Ability to model throughput and operational edge cases, Experience leading technical discussions with customers, Ability to produce technical deployment documentation, Strong technical communication skills, Ability to work on-site and travel as needed 📃 Skills: CAD, Firmware, Sensors, Electronics, Software, Controls, Telemetry, Automation, Robotics, Electromechanical, Diagrams, Architecture, Deployment, Configuration, Commissioning 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. The company designs, builds, and operates autonomous logistics systems that deliver medical supplies, food, and retail products globally. Zipline operates across four continents and has completed millions of deliveries using autonomous drone technology. About You and The Role Zipline builds and operates autonomous delivery systems that move critical goods reliably and safely. Dropbox is a customer-facing package-loading product that integrates mechatronics, sensors, electronics, access control, user interaction, firmware, autonomy interfaces, and environmental protection so untrained users can hand off packages to drones. Every partner site is different. Window dimensions, building geometry, utilities, traffic, pedestrian access, permitting constraints, employee workflows, and delivery volume all affect how Dropbox can be configured and operated. Product behavior must account for these real-world constraints without creating an unmanageable number of hardware variants or site-specific exceptions. As a Senior Product Integration Engineer, you will act as the technical bridge between partners, Product, Hardware, Firmware, Systems, Safety, and Deployments. You will convert partner workflows and building conditions into product requirements, configuration rules, interface definitions, and product behaviors. You will work directly with partners during site exploration and pilots, define successful integration requirements, and provide Deployment teams with the information required to survey, design, install, commission, and support sites. You will also work closely with Firmware teams to define state machines, interlocks, fault responses, recovery behavior, configuration parameters, and telemetry. This is a hands-on individual contributor role requiring work across partner operations, building drawings, system state diagrams, safety analyses, and firmware design reviews. Success means Dropbox behaves safely and predictably, meets throughput needs, and can be deployed repeatedly without site-specific engineering exceptions. What You'll Do - Own technical product integration for Dropbox across partner workflows, building interfaces, product configuration, firmware behavior, and deployment readiness. - Work directly with partners to understand workflows, operational priorities, and construction constraints. - Lead site fit studies using drawings, surveys, CAD envelopes, representative hardware, and on-site observations. - Translate partner needs into product requirements while maintaining scalable product architecture. - Define supported site archetypes and configurations. - Define building and site constraints including structural interfaces, utilities, clearances, traffic zones, and service access. - Develop and maintain partner integration packages including interface drawings, utility requirements, configuration rules, and site acceptance criteria. - Provide Deployment teams with survey requirements, installation inputs, commissioning steps, and escalation criteria. - Partner with Deployment Engineering to make installation and commissioning safe and repeatable. - Lead technical engagement for partner pilots and use field observations to improve workflows and configurations. - Define operational concepts across loading, validation, handoff, recovery, service, and downtime. - Work with Firmware engineers to develop testable state machines and product behavior. - Define behavior for access control, interlocks, obstructions, power loss, communication loss, and recovery. - Ensure telemetry and recovery actions are visible and understandable to operators and support teams. - Define how site configuration and operating modes are represented and validated in software. - Own cross-functional interface definitions among Dropbox, buildings, users, cloud systems, and deployment tooling. - Translate safety analyses into sensing strategies, operating limits, and configuration constraints. - Define throughput and cycle-time requirements. - Quantify tradeoffs between throughput and safety. - Drive cross-functional technical decisions balancing safety, reliability, cost, and schedule. - Define verification and acceptance evidence for new configurations and site types. - Use pilot feedback and telemetry to improve requirements and reduce downtime and installation exceptions. - Maintain decision records, configuration matrices, state diagrams, and deployment guidance. What You'll Bring - Proven experience integrating complex electromechanical, robotic, industrial automation, or autonomous systems into customer environments. - Experience translating customer workflows into scalable technical requirements. - Strong systems knowledge across hardware, sensors, electronics, firmware, software, controls, and human interaction. - Experience defining concepts of operation, interface-control documents, state machines, fault behavior, and system-level requirements. - Ability to read building plans, site surveys, mechanical drawings, electrical diagrams, and architecture documentation. - Experience evaluating structures, clearances, utilities, environmental exposure, and installation constraints. - Experience partnering with firmware teams to define observable and recoverable behavior. - Ability to reason about safety hazards and mitigations. - Ability to model throughput, cycle time, and operational edge cases. - Experience leading technical discussions with customers and partners. - Ability to produce technical packages executable by deployment and construction teams. - Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills. - Comfort working at deployment sites and resolving integration issues directly. - This role is in person in South San Francisco and includes travel to partner, supplier, test, and deployment sites. - Periodic off-hours or travel support may be required during pilots and critical deployments. What Success Looks Like - Deployment teams receive accurate information early enough to install sites without repeated engineering escalation. - Controlled Dropbox configurations support the majority of partner and building scenarios. - Partner requirements and site constraints are identified before causing redesign or operational disruption. - Dropbox state machines and fault behavior are safe, predictable, testable, and recoverable. - Safety and throughput requirements are consistently reflected in architecture, firmware, configuration, and site design. - New partner integrations move faster with fewer unresolved assumptions. - Field learnings reduce installation exceptions, failed operations, downtime, and service burden.

🏢 Summary: Mechanical Engineering Manager role focused on leading the architecture, development, production, and field performance of Zipline’s customer-facing autonomous delivery Dropbox system. The position combines technical leadership and hands-on engineering across electromechanical systems, manufacturing, validation, and reliability for high-volume deployment. Candidates will manage a mechanical engineering team while driving product architecture, testing, production scaling, and cross-functional integration. 🗂️ Requirements: Experience managing and developing mechanical engineering teams, Experience leading electromechanical products from architecture through production and field deployment, Strong expertise in mechanisms, structures, actuators, sensors, and electronics integration, Knowledge of GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials, fatigue, wear, and FEA, Experience designing around PCBAs, harnesses, connectors, motors, and embedded control systems, Experience with sheet metal, injection-molded plastics, machined parts, castings, and extrusions, Experience with DFM, DFA, supplier engagement, and manufacturing ramp, Experience defining validation plans for safety, reliability, and environmental requirements, Experience resolving production or field failures using root-cause analysis, Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills 📃 Skills: GD&T, FEA, DFM, DFA, PCBAs, NX, Sensors, Actuators, Motors, Harnessing, Mechanisms, Structures, Kinematics, Firmware, Telemetry, Injection-molding, Sheet-metal, Machining, Castings, Extrusions 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Our customers include healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide rapid delivery services. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. About You and The Role Dropbox is Zipline's customer-facing product through which partners load orders for autonomous pickup by Platform 2. Dropbox integrates package loading and validation, mechatronics, controlled access, handoff interfaces, sensors, electronics, environmental protection, and service features. It must be intuitive for an untrained user, safe around people, reliable over high cycle counts, and capable of operating unattended in demanding environments. Zipline is hiring a Mechanical Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for the mechanical architecture, development, production, and field performance of Dropbox. You will manage and grow a team of mechanical engineers while partnering with Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Software, Systems, Test, Reliability, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Deployment, Operations, and Product. You will own the current product and define the next generation required to support significantly larger deployment volumes. This is a player-coach role. You will set direction, develop engineers, and remain close enough to the hardware to guide architecture, review critical analyses, and help resolve the team's hardest technical problems. What You'll Do - Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of mechanical engineers. - Hire exceptional engineers and establish clear ownership, technical direction, and execution plans. - Own the Dropbox mechanical architecture and roadmap from requirements through field deployment. - Lead development of the enclosure, structure, elevator, lid and access mechanisms, latches, package interfaces, droid interfaces, electronics packaging, harnessing, sealing, and service features. - Translate customer and system needs into mechanical requirements, interface definitions, and validation plans. - Drive system trades across safety, reliability, user experience, throughput, installation, serviceability, manufacturability, cost, and schedule. - Establish system-level datum structures, GD&T, alignment schemes, and tolerance strategies. - Integrate mechanical design with sensing and firmware behavior for motion control, homing, access control, obstruction detection, fault handling, and service recovery. - Guide the selection and integration of motors, actuators, transmissions, bearings, sensors, connectors, PCBAs, harnesses, and seals. - Ensure designs account for fatigue, wear, contamination, water ingress, corrosion, thermal variation, misuse, package variation, and installation variation. - Use first-principles analysis, hand calculations, tolerance analysis, kinematic analysis, FEA, prototypes, and testing to guide decisions. - Drive design reviews, DFMEAs, hazard assessments, fault-tree analyses, and risk-retirement plans. - Define component and system testing for functionality, lifetime, environmental exposure, abuse, obstruction, motion faults, package variation, and droid handoff. - Lead Dropbox through prototype builds, engineering validation, design validation, production validation, and volume ramp. - Partner with NPI, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and suppliers to achieve scalable, high-yield production. - Drive DFM and DFA across sheet metal, injection-molded plastics, machined parts, castings, extrusions, seals, and electromechanical assemblies. - Lead responses to test, production, and field failures, including containment, root cause, corrective action, and permanent resolution. - Use field reliability, service, and telemetry data to prioritize product improvements. - Reduce failure rates, recovery time, maintenance burden, installation complexity, and total cost of ownership. What You'll Bring - Past success managing and developing an excellent team of mechanical engineers. - A record of hiring strong engineers and creating a culture of ownership, urgency, and technical rigor. - Experience leading first-of-a-kind electromechanical products from architecture through production and field deployment. - Significant direct technical contributions to mechanical product architecture earlier in your career. - Deep experience with mechanisms, structures, actuators, sensors, electronics integration, and high-cycle moving assemblies. - Strong fundamentals in hand calculations, GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials, fatigue, wear, bolted joints, and FEA. - Experience designing around PCBAs, harnesses, connectors, motors, transmissions, sensors, and embedded control systems. - Experience with sheet metal, injection-molded plastics, machined parts, castings, extrusions, seals, and relevant high-volume processes. - Demonstrated success with DFM, DFA, supplier engagement, inspection planning, and manufacturing ramp. - Experience defining validation plans and demonstrating safety, reliability, environmental, and lifetime requirements. - Experience resolving complex production or field failures through disciplined root-cause analysis. - Strong customer judgment and an understanding that usability, serviceability, and fault recovery are engineering requirements. - Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills. Nice to Have - Experience with outdoor, unattended, or customer-facing electromechanical products. - Experience in robotics, industrial automation, material handling, automotive, appliances, kiosks, or similar systems. - Experience designing powered mechanisms that operate around untrained users. - Experience with environmental sealing, drainage, condensation, corrosion, and wide-temperature operation. - Experience using fleet telemetry or reliability data to improve mechanical hardware. - Experience with Siemens NX. - Aerospace-, automotive-, medical-, or similarly rigorous validation experience. What Else You Need to Know Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.

🏢 Summary: Senior Integration & Test Software Engineer role focused on building and owning software-driven SIL, HIL, and EOLT test systems for autonomous delivery drones. The position involves developing automation, integrating embedded hardware and software, supporting production operations, and improving fleet reliability at scale. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration, production support, and hands-on work with embedded systems and factory test infrastructure. 🗂️ Requirements: 5+ years building integration and test software interfacing with hardware, Strong Python skills, Strong C/C++ skills, Linux system administration experience, Experience with CI and Git, Experience with test automation frameworks, Hands-on embedded systems experience, Experience with board bring-up and instrumentation, Experience with HIL/SIL/EOL test architectures, Experience building automation for factory or safety-critical environments, Ability to own cross-disciplinary test programs end-to-end, Ability to work onsite in South San Francisco regularly, Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and travel up to 20% 📃 Skills: Python, C++, C, Linux, Git, CI, SIL, HIL, EOLT, DAQ, Automation, Embedded, Oscilloscopes, Instrumentation 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role You will be the Senior Integration & Test Software Engineer (Long Range Platform) owning software-driven test systems that validate our long-range delivery drones across engineering, manufacturing, and fleet operations. Zipline's mission to deliver critical goods at scale depends on test systems that catch failures before flight and enable rapid, reliable product iterations. You will operate at the intersection of embedded flight code, factory automation, and field operations: designing, deploying, and sustaining turnkey SIL/HIL/EOLT test rigs and automation that directly affect throughput, defect rates, and fleet reliability in production and operational deployments. What You'll Do - Own end-to-end delivery of test systems (SIL, HIL, EOLT, bench rigs) from prototype through production deployment and field sustainment. You are the technical owner accountable for schedules, acceptance criteria, and production readiness. - Ship measurable improvements: define and meet targets such as test coverage %, mean time to detect (MTTD) critical failures, reduction in test cycle time, and defect escape rate reductions tied to your systems. - Architect, implement, and maintain software that runs and orchestrates test sequences, data capture, analysis, and reporting. Build automation and dashboards used by manufacturing engineers and test operators. - Integrate software with hardware under test: board bring-up, sensor calibration, motion systems, power systems, and DAQ instruments. Validate against datasheets and representative hardware in lab and factory settings. - Lead investigations and root-cause analysis for failures discovered in test or production, produce corrective plans, and drive fixes to closure with engineering and operations stakeholders. - Define and enforce test standards, pass/fail criteria, and validation protocols used across products and production lines. Own CI/validation pipelines that gate changes to flight or manufacturing systems. - Work cross-functionally with embedded firmware, hardware, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, and field ops to deploy test systems at scale; coordinate vendor hardware and field installation when required. - Support on-call and production escalation cadence for systems you own. Travel to manufacturing or distribution sites as required. What You'll Bring - Proven history owning cross-disciplinary test or integration programs end-to-end. - 5+ years building integration/test software that interfaces with hardware. - Strong Python and C/C++ skills. - Linux system administration experience. - Experience with CI, Git, and test automation frameworks. - Hands-on experience with embedded systems, board bring-up, instrumentation, and interpreting datasheets. - Experience with HIL/SIL/EOL test architectures. - Experience building automation used in factory or safety-critical environments. - Demonstrated record of delivering systems with measurable impact on throughput, yield, defect reduction, or reliability improvements. - Comfortable with high-impact deadlines, on-call rotations, and occasional site travel. - Ability to drive cross-functional technical decisions and define acceptance criteria. - Ability to work regularly onsite in South San Francisco. - Visa sponsorship available. What Else You Need to Know Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. We value diversity and welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in tech.

🏢 Summary: Internship focused on system validation for autonomous drone logistics systems, including Hardware-in-the-Loop testing, flight test automation, and software validation. The role involves building automated testing pipelines, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, and supporting reliability and safety for mission-critical systems. Candidates will gain hands-on experience with Linux-based testing, CI workflows, and multidisciplinary engineering collaboration. 🗂️ Requirements: Completed second year of undergraduate studies, Understanding of engineering design fundamentals, Experience with Rust or Python scripting, Experience writing Python tests with Pytest or Unittest, Familiarity with test plans or validation plans, Experience debugging hardware and software issues, Understanding of electrical systems, Experience working in Linux environments, Familiarity with Git, Familiarity with Bazel, Familiarity with Jira, Understanding of networking concepts such as RPC or sockets, Experience with CI tools, Ability to work full-time in-person in South San Francisco 📃 Skills: Rust, Python, Pytest, Unittest, Linux, Git, Bazel, Jira, RPC, Sockets, GitHub, Buildkite, CI, HIL, Networking 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. System Validation Team The System Validation Team ensures the performance, reliability, and safety of Zipline's integrated system of systems, including the Zip, Droid, and Dock. We specialize in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, enabling us to validate complex interactions across hardware and software before real-world deployment. Our team builds and maintains automated pipelines that rigorously test software in a simulated environment, ensuring it meets high standards before being tested in flight. By catching potential issues early and refining system behavior, we play a critical role in delivering reliable, safe, and efficient solutions that power Zipline's mission to transform global logistics. Our team owns automation of flight testing as well to capture issues before it happens in commercial flights. The Role As a System Validation Intern, you will contribute to testing and validating Zipline's complete system of systems—spanning the Zip, Droid, and Dock. You'll help build and refine automated testing pipelines, ensuring that software meets rigorous quality standards before being tested in flight. Working closely with a supportive and experienced team, you'll develop hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools and technologies while solving meaningful challenges. Your work will play an essential role in ensuring the reliability of systems that deliver life-saving goods worldwide. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. What You'll Do - Assist in executing Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) tests and flight tests to validate the interaction between Zipline's Zip, Droid, and Dock systems. - Collaborate with a wide range of engineers from different teams to build and refine automated pipelines that test software before it is deployed in flight. - Design and improve tools that stress-test the system in off-nominal cases. - Analyze and troubleshoot hardware and software issues uncovered during testing, contributing to system improvements. - Work alongside a multidisciplinary team to design and execute system-level validation plans. - Develop and enhance scripts and tools to support automated testing workflows. - Learn how to ensure reliability and quality in complex, safety-critical systems, gaining valuable insights into real-world engineering challenges. What You'll Bring - You must have completed the second year of your undergraduate studies. Master's and PhD students are also eligible. - Strong understanding of engineering design fundamentals and the ability to triage and identify root causes of technical issues. - Experience writing Rust or Python scripts to automate tasks or tests, either through coursework or personal projects. - Hands-on experience writing Python tests using tools like Pytest or Unittest. - Familiarity with creating and executing test plans or validation plans for software or hardware systems. - A hands-on approach to problem-solving, including debugging and triaging technical issues. - General understanding of electrical systems such as motors, sensors, cameras, and onboard computers. - Experience working in a Linux environment, including using command-line tools effectively. - Familiarity with tools like Git for version control, bazel for build and test management and Jira for task tracking. - Basic understanding of networking concepts such as RPC or sockets. - Experience working with CI tools like GitHub Actions, Buildkite, or similar. - Strong attention to detail and organizational skills to document test results and track issues effectively. What Else You Should Know This internship is a full-time position, in-person at the South San Francisco office. Fall 2026 interns will work from September to December. 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. Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the interview process.

🏢 Summary: Hands-on Flight Test Operator role focused on executing and validating drone flight test campaigns for autonomous aircraft from prototype through production readiness. The position involves flight operations, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, safety management, and coordination with engineering teams in onsite field environments. Candidates must hold FAA Part 107 certification and have experience piloting drones or manned aircraft. 🗂️ Requirements: FAA Part 107 certification, Experience piloting drones or manned aircraft, Ability to execute and own end-to-end flight test campaigns, Experience with preflight checklists and go/no-go flight decisions, Ability to troubleshoot hardware and software issues onsite, Experience documenting and escalating safety incidents, Ability to work outdoors in field conditions, Ability to lift and move 50+ lb equipment, Availability for weekends, night shifts, and regional travel 📃 Skills: FAA, Drones, Avionics, Linux, 3Dprinting, Machining, FlightSystems, Diagnostics, Troubleshooting, Testing 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role You are a hands-on Flight Test Operator focused on bringing early-stage Zipline aircraft from prototype through production bring-up. You will execute, iterate, and sign off on flight operations that validate airworthiness, avionics/software integration, and field-deployable procedures that enable drone delivery at scale. You'll work at Zipline's test site(s) and coordinate closely with vehicle engineering, software, safety, manufacturing, and field operations to turn early stage flight software into reliable, release-ready aircraft. This role matters because timely, rigorous flight validation reduces deployment risk, shortens product development cycles, and directly affects delivery reliability for our customers. What You'll Do - Own end-to-end daily flight test campaign execution - Act as Remote Pilot in Command for Zipline's Autonomous Aircraft - Execute mission profiles, feature testing, and fault injection testing - Validate functionality through repeatable ground and flight test procedures - Troubleshoot and repair software and hardware issues on-site to return aircraft to flight - Summarize test results and provide qualitative and quantitative analysis on aircraft performance - Escalate flight performance anomalies to engineering and safety teams - Enforce and improve site safety, manage risks for prototype flights, run briefings and debriefs, and refine SOPs - Work onsite at outdoor test sites with weekends, night shifts, and occasional regional travel What You'll Bring - FAA Part 107 certification required at time of joining - Experience piloting drones or manned aircraft - Demonstrated aeronautical decision making and accountability - Experience creating preflight checklists and escalating safety incidents with documentation - Comfortable working in iterative field environments with rapid diagnostics and repairs - Ability to lift and move 50+ lb equipment and work outdoors for multi-hour test windows - Proven ability to own test campaigns end-to-end and coordinate across engineering, safety, and manufacturing - Nice-to-have: Linux command-line comfort, rapid prototyping skills such as 3D printing and basic machining, and experience with automated flight systems What Else You Need To Know - Full-time position - Starting cash range: $37 - $45 per hour 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. 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!

🏢 Summary: Full-time, in-person Flight Test Engineering Internship focused on analyzing flight test data, designing and executing validation campaigns, and supporting autonomous drone system testing and operations. The role involves close collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams to validate software and hardware performance and improve system reliability. This is a hands-on opportunity to work with autonomy software, data analysis, and real-world flight operations at scale. 🗂️ Requirements: Completed at least second year of undergraduate studies in physics, mathematics, mechanical, aerospace, systems, computer science, electrical engineering or related field, Strong background in mathematics and physics, Experience in autonomous vehicle or robotic system integration and testing, Experience in data processing and visualization, Strong written and verbal communication skills, Availability for full-time, in-person internship (September–December) 📃 Skills: Python, Databricks, SQL, Statistics, Simulation, Instrumentation, FlightControl, DataAnalysis, Regression, Autonomy, Robotics 🏢 Description: About the Flight Test Engineering Team Zipline's Flight Test Engineering team designs flight test courses and methods to support overall system validation. The team develops custom flight control software for complex maneuvers and collaborates with development engineers to create rigorous tests for critical edge cases. Work spans simulation, hardware testing, data-driven analysis, and system-level evaluations supporting global deployments. The Role As a Flight Test Engineering Intern, you will analyze flight test data logs to determine test effectiveness, identify root causes of success or failure, and track performance trends. You will contribute to the design of new flight test campaigns, defining test scope, methods, and data post-processing in collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams. This role provides hands-on experience validating complex autonomous robotic systems at scale. What You'll Do - Analyze flight test data logs using custom scripts (Python, Databricks, SQL) to identify anomalies, assess reliability, track performance trends, and perform regression analyses. - Design, oversee execution, and review results of software validation and flight test campaigns to ensure new features perform as intended and prevent hardware/software regression. - Test and monitor the development branch daily to surface instability and potential issues. - Collaborate with GNC, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Systems Engineering teams to ensure system-level requirements are clear, measurable, and ready for flight testing. - Develop new test infrastructure, including instrumentation systems (e.g., load cells, vision systems) or modified flight control software, to collect additional in-flight data. - Maintain documentation, dashboards, and SQL queries to track test progress and operational efficiency. - Support and potentially own aspects of flight operations including preflight, launch, flight maneuvers, and incident reporting. What You'll Bring - Completion of at least the second year of undergraduate studies in a relevant engineering or technical field (Masters and PhD students eligible). - Strong mathematical and physics foundation. - Experience in autonomous vehicle or robotic system integration and testing. - Experience in data processing and visualization. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. What Else You Should Know This is a full-time, in-person internship based in South San Francisco from September to December. The hourly rate is $40 per hour. Additional benefits may include relocation support, housing stipend, overtime pay, and paid sick time, subject to local requirements.

🏢 Summary: Software Engineering Manager role leading the development of Zipline’s Launch & Scale Platform, focused on building operational systems that support global infrastructure deployment and launch workflows. The position combines hands-on technical leadership, backend platform architecture, workflow automation, and cross-functional collaboration to scale deployment operations from tens to thousands of sites. Candidates will manage engineering teams, define technical strategy, and build integrated systems supporting construction, permitting, asset tracking, and operational readiness. 🗂️ Requirements: 6+ years building software products, 2+ years managing engineers or equivalent leadership experience, Experience leading backend or full-stack operational platforms, Hands-on software engineering and architecture experience, Experience with distributed systems and workflow orchestration, Experience with event-driven architectures and scalable backend services, Experience building robust APIs and system integrations, Experience integrating ERP, GIS, and document systems, Experience modeling operational workflows and complex state transitions, Ability to define and deliver measurable operational metrics, Experience owning production services and operational reliability, Ability to work cross-functionally with operational stakeholders, Willingness to travel regularly within the U.S. 📃 Skills: Python, APIs, ERP, GIS, Backend, DistributedSystems, Workflows, Architecture, Orchestration, EventDriven, Integration, AssetManagement, Construction, Operations, Infrastructure 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role You are the Software Engineering Manager for Zipline's Launch & Scale Platform: the leader who builds the software systems that enable Zipline to rapidly deploy new infrastructure around the world. This team owns the operational platform that turns a new market from an idea into a live, revenue-generating network—covering site acquisition, infrastructure design, permitting, construction execution, deployment tracking, and launch readiness. Your work directly affects Zipline's ability to expand into new countries and deliver time-critical supplies reliably at scale. This is a greenfield product and engineering leadership role. You will establish the product roadmap, technical vision, and engineering foundations for a platform intended to scale Zipline from tens of sites to hundreds or thousands. You will partner closely with Real Estate, Launch Operations, Construction, Hardware, Flight Operations, Commercial, and Manufacturing to replace fragmented manual workflows with a single, auditable, automated operational system that raises launch velocity, predictability, and safety. What You'll Do - Own end-to-end strategy, delivery, and operational reliability for the Launch & Scale Platform. - Define and prioritize the product and technical roadmap with stakeholders, driving decisions by measurable business impact. - Reduce manual coordination across launch workflows and improve predictability of launch dates. - Translate complex operational processes into durable systems with workflow automation and auditability. - Design and operate production services for business-critical launch systems. - Build integrations across ERP, GIS, document management, permitting systems, construction tools, asset management, and internal operational systems. - Ship code, lead architecture reviews, review critical pull requests, and troubleshoot production incidents. - Hire, coach, and scale the engineering organization. - Collaborate with Launch Operations, Construction, Hardware, Real Estate, Flight Operations, and Commercial teams. What You'll Bring - Engineering Manager experience leading backend or full-stack operational platforms. - 6+ years building software products. - 2+ years managing engineers or equivalent leadership experience. - Experience with distributed systems, workflow orchestration, event-driven architectures, APIs, and scalable backend services. - Experience integrating ERP, GIS, and document systems. - Experience modeling workflows, physical assets, and complex state transitions. - Track record of delivering measurable operational outcomes. - Experience owning production services and designing for operational reliability. - Strong technical judgment, prioritization, and stakeholder influence. Logistics This role can be based in South San Francisco or remote within the U.S. Regular travel is expected to collaborate closely with stakeholders, understand operational challenges firsthand, and build software grounded in real-world workflows. Travel may include visits to headquarters, operating sites, and new market launches. Remote team members should expect more frequent travel, potentially a couple of times per month. What Else You Need To Know Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

🏢 Summary: Senior Embedded Software Engineer role focused on developing and validating safety-critical embedded software for Zipline’s long-range autonomous aircraft platform. The position involves owning embedded subsystems, building diagnostics and testing infrastructure, and improving fleet reliability through real-time systems development and field validation. 🗂️ Requirements: 5+ years experience in embedded or flight-critical systems, Production experience with embedded software in safety- or mission-critical systems, Strong systems-level experience with C++ or Rust, Experience with bare-metal and RTOS environments, Strong Python experience for test and telemetry tooling, Ability to debug hardware/software interactions using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and telemetry, Experience with fault management and deterministic real-time systems, Ability to own embedded subsystems end-to-end, Bachelor’s degree in EE/CS or equivalent experience, Willingness to travel for field testing and support incident response 📃 Skills: C++, Rust, Python, RTOS, Linux, JTAG, Telemetry, Firmware, Drivers, Embedded, Avionics, Debugging, Oscilloscopes, Datasheets 🏢 Description: About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role Senior Embedded Software Engineer on the Long Range Platform (South San Francisco). You will own low-level and edge software that makes our long-range aircraft safe, reliable, and operable across a production delivery network. This role sits at the hardware/software boundary: you will be accountable for flight- and safety-critical embedded stacks running on embedded RTOS systems, and for the diagnostics and validation infrastructure that proves those stacks in the field. Your work directly affects aircraft reliability, mission completion rate, and field-maintenance load across a distributed fleet. What You'll Do - Own one or more end-to-end embedded subsystems (firmware, drivers, runtime, monitoring) for the long-range platform and be the primary technical owner for design, implementation, and production readiness. - Deliver and maintain flight- and safety-critical code on microcontrollers (bare-metal/RTOS): drivers, device bring-up, real-time control interfaces, fault management, and graceful degradation logic. - Define and ship measurable reliability and observability outcomes (MTTR, mission success rate, in-field fault rates, test coverage targets). Instrument systems so flight-data can be used to detect regressions and prioritize fixes. - Lead hardware-in-the-loop, bench, and field validation for changes you introduce; partner with systems, hardware, test engineering, and operations to create repeatable test plans and failure-insertion exercises. - Build and extend tooling for deterministic test, logging, post-flight analysis, and automated regression tests to accelerate safe deployments across the fleet. - Triage and resolve high-severity field incidents: drive RCA, implement fixes, and own follow-through until fleet metrics demonstrate resolution. - Collaborate closely with avionics, systems engineering, manufacturing, and flight operations to set integration boundaries, certification inputs, and release criteria for software changes. What You'll Bring - Senior Embedded Software Engineer level experience. - Substantial systems-level experience shipping embedded production code in C++ or Rust. - Strong familiarity with Python for test/telemetry tooling. - Experience with bare-metal and RTOS environments. - Experience with embedded Linux is nice to have. - Proven track record deploying and operating embedded software in safety- or mission-critical systems such as aviation, robotics, or industrial controls. - Experience with fault management, deterministic real-time requirements, and validation strategies. - Demonstrated ability to read schematics, bring up peripherals from datasheets, and debug hardware/software interaction using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and in-field telemetry. - History of owning subsystem delivery end-to-end, shipping repeatable test suites, and meeting quantified reliability targets. - Comfortable with field testing cadence, occasional travel to flight-test sites, and participating in incident response outside standard hours when critical fleet incidents occur. - Bachelor’s degree in EE/CS or equivalent experience. - Typically 5+ years in embedded/flight-critical systems or equivalent demonstrated impact. 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. 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!