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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
AmarilloTexasUSA
Job type
Customer Success
Posted
Sep 3, 2026
Salary
$107,000–$145,000 a year
Full-time

Flight Test Site Lead

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

  • Set daily site priorities, lead operational briefings and readiness checks, and direct safe execution of flight and ground test activities.
  • Make site-level readiness, staffing allocation, and stop-work decisions; escalate test-plan changes and unresolved safety, engineering, or program tradeoffs.
  • Manage and develop Flight Test Operators, Ground Test personnel, and Visual Observers through hiring, onboarding, coaching, feedback, and performance management.
  • Coordinate facilities, equipment, layout, and operational needs with internal partners and vendors to maintain a ready flight test site.
  • Partner with engineering, safety, maintenance, and manufacturing to plan and execute complex test campaigns.
  • Track safety, readiness, throughput, repeatability, and reliability metrics to improve procedures, tooling, workflows, and resource allocation.
  • Represent Flight Test Operations during facility visits, explaining Zipline’s aircraft, test approach, and operating practices to technical and non-technical audiences.
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