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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Manufacturing
Posted
Jul 24, 2026
Full-time

Lead Engineering Technician

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

  • Lead hands-on electromechanical builds, integration, validation, troubleshooting, rework, and recovery of aircraft and supporting hardware.
  • Directly manage, hire, onboard, schedule, coach, review, and develop a team of Engineering Technicians.
  • Set daily priorities and allocate technician capacity across prototype, NPI, validation, production support, remanufacturing, and field-operations work.
  • Resolve competing execution needs by coordinating cross-functional tradeoffs and escalating decisions when needed.
  • Confirm build readiness by ensuring required hardware, tooling, documentation, materials, and configurations are available before work begins.
  • Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Validation, Production, Supply Chain, and Field Operations to remove technical and execution blockers.
  • Maintain safety, craftsmanship, quality, documentation, traceability, and configuration-control standards; use build-floor feedback to improve tooling, methods, work instructions, manufacturability, and recovery…
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