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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Aug 13, 2026
Salary
$145,000–$225,000 a year
Full-time

Mechanical Design Engineer, Structures & Mechanisms

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

  • Own end-to-end delivery of structural or mechanical subsystems from requirements → design → build → test → release →production/operations sustainment
  • Produce and defend system-level trade studies, tolerance stacks, load paths, failure modes, and hand-calcs/analysis that bound designs for safety-critical loads and manufacturability of high performance hardware
  • Create CAD assemblies, detailed drawings, GD&T, and manufacturing documentation for complex assemblies: own design reviews, DFM and first-article criteria
  • Lead supplier selection, qualification, and handoff: drive DFM feedback, define inspection criteria, and reduce supplier NPI cycle time and scrap rates.
  • Cross-functional interface: partner daily with Systems, Software, Production, Integration & Test, Reliability, and Field Ops to align requirements, manage trade-offs, and eliminate deployment blockers
  • Ship for scale: translate prototypes into designs that meet target cost, cycle time, and inspection rates for medium-volume production; own metrics for manufacturability and in-field reliability and drive them to target.
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