Flyzipline
Head of Flight Test Engineering
South San Francisco, California, USA
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$260kDetected 16 hours ago
Data EngineeringLogisticsTest AutomationLeadership
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
- Lead, grow, and develop the Flight Test Engineering team.
- Own the validation strategy for new aircraft capabilities, software releases, hardware changes, delivery operations, docking and charging systems, fleet behavior, and operational concepts.
- Partner with Flight Test Operations on site readiness, execution processes, operational scalability, and support for testing in new geographies and environments.
- 5+ years designing, developing, validating, or testing complex autonomous, robotic, aerospace, aviation, or safety-critical systems
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical programs and communicate safety, risk, and engineering tradeoffs to engineers, operators, executives, and regulatory partners.
- Comfort working in field environments with operational teams and willingness to travel domestically and internationally for flight testing, team leadership, and test-site support.
Requirements
- You are both a strong technical leader and a hands-on systems thinker.
Nice to have
- UAS experience is strongly preferred.
Compensation
- The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
Benefits
- Build and oversee flight test campaigns that produce clear release-readiness evidence and expand representative regression coverage across the end-to-end logistics system.
- Choose the appropriate validation modality-flight, simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, or ground testing-to focus flight testing on the highest-value learning.
- Experience building or integrating test automation, analytics tooling, data pipelines, or scalable validation systems that improve coverage and efficiency.
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