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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Business Operations
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Salary
$225,000–$275,000 a year
Full-time

Head of Systems Engineering

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

  • Scope: Product level requirements, architecture and decomposition, verification plans, operational performance monitoring of the key attributes and functions of the product such as the following:
  • Network Optimization & Capacity; Aircraft Autonomy; Flight Performance; Operational Design Domain / Operating Envelope; Flight Reliability and Fault Management
  • What you’ll do across these areas
  • Serve as a trusted technical expert of high-reliability, safety-critical autonomous systems owning system level architecture, requirements, metrics, and test coverage to ensure we ship the right product capabilities,…
  • Define interfaces and drive cross disciplinary discussions to align on the right architectures to meet our goals
  • Develop frameworks and facilitate trade studies to optimize for performance, safety, and cost.
  • Create and maintain systems models and diagrams
  • Set the bar for hardware and software release standards and test requirements
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