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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Jul 27, 2026
Salary
$120,000–$155,000 a year
Full-time

Failure Analysis Engineer

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

  • Investigate failures involving flex circuits, rigid-flex assemblies, PCBAs, connectors, harnesses, solder joints, vias, and electronic components.
  • Preserve failed hardware and collect relevant configuration, test, manufacturing, service, and field data.
  • Reproduce intermittent failures under representative electrical, mechanical, thermal, and environmental conditions.
  • Troubleshoot hardware using schematics, wiring diagrams, multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, logic analyzers, thermal imaging, and protocol tools.
  • Analyze telemetry, test logs, measurements, and inspection results to identify patterns and narrow possible causes.
  • Perform hands-on inspection and support physical analysis using microscopy, X-ray, cross-sectioning, and other appropriate techniques.
  • Develop and execute experiments that prove or disprove suspected failure mechanisms.
  • Use structured methods such as fault trees, 5-Why, fishbone analysis, and 8D to separate symptoms from root cause.
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