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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Jul 13, 2026
Salary
$195,000–$245,000 a year
Full-time

Mechanical Engineering Manager, Dropbox

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

  • Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of mechanical engineers.
  • Hire exceptional engineers and establish clear ownership, technical direction, and execution plans.
  • Own the Dropbox mechanical architecture and roadmap from requirements through field deployment.
  • Lead development of the enclosure, structure, elevator, lid and access mechanisms, latches, package interfaces, droid interfaces, electronics packaging, harnessing, sealing, and service features.
  • Translate customer and system needs into mechanical requirements, interface definitions, and validation plans.
  • Drive system trades across safety, reliability, user experience, throughput, installation, serviceability, manufacturability, cost, and schedule.
  • Establish system-level datum structures, GD&T, alignment schemes, and tolerance strategies.
  • Integrate mechanical design with sensing and firmware behavior for motion control, homing, access control, obstruction detection, fault handling, and service recovery.
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