- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Legal
- Posted
- Sep 17, 2026
Full-time
Director of Airspace Policy and Regulatory Affairs
Job description
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who…
Job responsibilities
- Work with cross functional teams to develop and implement Zipline’s airspace integration strategy, including strategic and tactical deconfliction of UAS, remote identification, detection and avoidance of cooperative…
- Lead Zipline’s policy strategy for RF deconfliction and spectrum coexistence, address command-and-control and CNPC links, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, cellular connectivity, and the interaction between UAS…
- Lead Zipline’s policy engagement on electronic conspicuity, ADS-B, Remote Identification (RID) and Network RID, transponder and surveillance requirements, and other means of making UAS visible to airspace-integration…
- Turn aviation and spectrum regulatory requirements, e.g. FAA’s BVLOS rulemaking, into practical compliance, certification, and deployment roadmaps.
- Represent Zipline in the forums where airspace integration policy, standards, and governance are developed, including FAA working groups, ASTM F38, RTCA, JARUS, GUTMA, and other relevant industry and international…
- Lead Zipline’s engagement with the FAA on implementation of Part 108, Part 146, and Section 2209, and engage with other civil aviation authorities and air navigation service providers on related UTM and U-space efforts.
- Lead Zipline’s response to government consultations and notices of proposed rulemakings, request for comments, and other proceedings regarding airspace integration, spectrum, UTM, detect and avoid, electronic…
- Convert Zipline’s operational experience, safety evidence, and technical capabilities into credible contributions to standards, guidance, policy, and industry consensus.
Job requirements
- Experience with production UAS operations, autonomous systems, BVLOS approvals, Part 135 operations, or large-scale logistics and mobility networks.
- Experience developing safety cases, assurance frameworks, operational concepts, or certification evidence for high-reliability systems.