Flyzipline
Hardware Reliability Engineer
South San Francisco, California, USA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 18 hours ago
StatisticsA/B TestingLogisticsMechanical DesignCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service.
- 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.
- The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability strategy for mission-critical mechanical subsystems or entire systems, applying Design-for-Reliability (DfR) and Physics-of-Failure (PoF) principles.
- Translate system reliability targets into design-level requirements, verification plans, and objective pass/fail criteria.
- Lead DFMEA efforts with cross-functional teams to identify early risks and drive mitigation.
- Develop Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) and environmental test campaigns to validate long-term hardware performance.
- Lead failure analysis and structured root cause investigations, from component to system-level.
- Lead failure analysis and structured root-cause investigations, translating findings into design, manufacturing, or operational actions.
- Advocate cross-functionally for reliability: maintain an appropriately high reliability bar based on risk assessment and stage of program
- drive cross-functional alignment on reliability trade-offs and technical decisions around design, supply-chain, quality, manufacturing, finance, and operations.
- Ability to learn quickly, independently develop new technical depth, and adapt as program needs evolve.
Skills
- explain complex technical issues clearly;
- synthesize ambiguous information into a coherent problem statement;
- write concise, decision-oriented technical documentation; and
- Demonstrated ownership and practical problem-solving ability, including driving technically complex issues through resolution.
Company info
- Hands-on experience developing and validating safety-critical electromechanical systems through delivery to customers.
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