Zipline International Inc.

Electrical PCB Layout Engineer

South San Francisco, California, USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago

LogisticsPCB DesignAltiumEMI/EMCRoboticsMechanical Design

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.

Create PCB layouts in Altium for high-speed, low-speed, mixed-signal, power, and embedded electronics.
Partner with electrical engineers to understand schematic intent, critical nets, placement priorities, routing constraints, signal-integrity concerns, and design-risk areas.
Collaborate on stack-up definition, material selection, layer planning, impedance targets, HDI tradeoffs, and fabrication constraints.
Run design-rule checks, review layout issues, and drive closure of placement, routing, manufacturability, and assembly concerns before release.
Support design reviews with electrical, mechanical, firmware, manufacturing, supply-chain, and quality teams.
Maintain clean design data, revision history, layout documentation, and release packages that support prototype builds and production handoff.
Help improve layout standards, design checklists, Altium templates, library feedback loops, and repeatable release workflows.
Ability to read schematics, datasheets, reference designs, mechanical drawings, fabrication notes, and assembly requirements.
Working knowledge of PCB fabrication and assembly processes, including DFM, DFA, DFT, solder-mask and paste design, drill constraints, copper balance, panelization, and common manufacturing defects.
Familiarity with IPC design and acceptability standards, such as IPC-2221, IPC-7351, IPC-A-600, or IPC-A-610.

Strong understanding of PCB placement, routing, stack-ups, vias, controlled impedance, differential pairs, length tuning, grounding, shielding, and return-current paths.
Experience with both high-speed and low-speed board design, including digital, analog, power, sensors, connectors, and embedded-control circuits.

Experience with RF layout, antennas, switching power supplies, motor-control electronics, dense BGAs, HDI, rigid-flex, or flex circuits.
Experience using simulation, analysis, or review tools for signal integrity, power integrity, thermal behavior, or manufacturability.
What Success Looks Like
Boards are routed cleanly, released on schedule, and built without avoidable layout-related issues.
Electrical and mechanical constraints are understood early and reflected accurately in the layout.
Fabrication and assembly packages are complete, consistent, and easy for vendors to use.
The layout process becomes more repeatable through better templates, checklists, documentation, and cross-functional feedback.
What Else You Need To Know

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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