Zipline International Inc.
Concept and Architecture Engineering Contractor
South San Francisco, California, USA · Contract
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
Thin sponsorship signal and lottery-bound. A low-probability bet with your clock running. Prioritize cap-exempt roles and proven entry-level sponsors first.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →Employer immigration record
from this employer's Department of Labor filings
Green-card filing pattern in this occupation
Files H-1B transfers
Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.
Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
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
- Challenge our assumptions and help identify portions of the design space we may have overlooked.
- Use direct exposure to Zipline's systems and operations to develop a grounded understanding of the problem.
- Maintain strict confidentiality regarding the project and information shared during the engagement.
- In your own words, tell us about something you've built, solved, accomplished, or contributed to that you're particularly proud of, and why it matters to you.
- We're less interested in polished prose than in understanding what you choose to highlight and how you think about your own work.
- We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably.
- Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics.
- This will take the form of an intensive, highly collaborative design sprint running September 28- October 2, 2026 at Zipline's flight test facility in Half Moon Bay, California.
Requirements
- If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
Compensation
- Compensation is $3,000–$6,000 per day, depending on scope and relevant experience.
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.
- We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
- About You and The Role We are kicking off a new, highly confidential product development effort on Zipline's New Products team.
- We are specifically looking for people with a demonstrated history of building difficult things and solving problems that initially appeared intractable.
- Specific industry experience is less important than technical creativity, strong engineering intuition, hands-on ability, intellectual range, and a track record of turning unconventional ideas into working hardware or systems.
- We are kicking off a new, highly confidential product development effort on Zipline's New Products team.
- We are now embarking on another clean-sheet development effort that we believe has the potential to have a similar level of impact on the future success of the business.
- At this earliest stage of the project, we want to bring in a very small number of exceptional external engineers, designers, builders, and creative problem-solvers to work directly alongside the core New Products team.
This listing is sourced directly from Zipline International Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.