Flyzipline

Flyzipline

Manager - System Test Engineering and Operations

South San Francisco, California, USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
LogisticsProcurementHardware DesignAdaptability

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 multi-month system-test campaigns that demonstrate aircraft and major hardware through replicated flight conditions, extreme environments, and targets exceeding 20,000 cycles per aircraft.
  • Hire, lead, and develop test engineers and technicians who build assets, execute campaigns, and diagnose hardware faults.
  • Set the test-facility roadmap, including equipment design, procurement, custom development, aerodynamic design, and thermal design.
  • Deliver and upgrade large-scale test assets, including full-vehicle wind tunnels, walk-in thermal chambers, high-temperature/high-humidity chambers, and monsoon ingress test cells.
  • Drive in-house software tools for aircraft maintenance, cycle-life counting, and test planning to improve campaign execution and decision quality.
  • Ability to design, build, or specify custom test equipment and facility infrastructure for demanding test conditions.
  • 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!

Benefits

  • With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

Company info

  • We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere.
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