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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Aug 26, 2026
Salary
$130,000–$186,000 a year
Full-time

Electrical Engineer, Avionics

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

  • Contribute to the design and development of avionics and ground-support PCBAs, including digital, analog, sensing, communications, power, and control circuits.
  • Support schematic capture, component selection, interface definition, and board-level integration with guidance from experienced engineers.
  • Help bring up new boards, run bench tests, collect data, and summarize results to support design validation and release decisions.
  • Work with PCB layout, mechanical engineering, and firmware teams to close interface, packaging, thermal, and manufacturability issues.
  • Support validation testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations for issues found during bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, or flight test.
  • Contribute to requirements, test procedures, design documentation, release packages, and change-control records for avionics hardware.
  • Participate in design reviews and learn to evaluate tradeoffs across performance, reliability, manufacturability, weight, power, and cost.
  • Work with manufacturing, test, quality, and operations teams to support prototype builds, production readiness, and fielded hardware improvements.
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