Zipline International Inc.
Prototype Technician - New Products
South San Francisco, California, USA
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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
- Build first-of-their-kind prototypes for aircraft, mechanisms, electrical systems, ground equipment, and experimental hardware.
- Create mockups and flight-quality assemblies, selecting the level of fidelity needed to answer each design question.
- support testing, diagnose failures, and implement improvements in subsequent builds.
- Document builds, configurations, repairs, failures, and lessons learned
- provide feedback on manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, reliability, and design simplicity.
- Ability to work from incomplete drawings or early concepts and independently determine the practical details needed to build and test hardware.
- Experience building and troubleshooting prototype electrical systems, including sensors, wiring, actuators, motors, connectors, or measurement equipment.
- Instrument prototypes with sensors, wiring, DAQ systems, and measurement equipment; support testing, diagnose failures, and implement improvements in subsequent builds.
- Document builds, configurations, repairs, failures, and lessons learned; provide feedback on manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, reliability, and design simplicity.
- We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably.
Requirements
- If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
Nice to have
- Strong safety awareness around experimental aircraft, batteries, motors, machinery, and other high-energy systems
- experience in aerospace, automotive, robotics, motorsports, or industrial equipment is a plus.
Benefits
- With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
- Designs evolve quickly, and the fastest path to learning is often to build something, test it, understand what failed, and build the next version.
Company info
- We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere.
- We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
- We're looking for exceptional prototypers and makers who can help turn new ideas into real hardware and enable entirely new aircraft capabilities.
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