- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Oct 29, 2026
- Salary
- $104,000–$170,000 a year
Process Engineer
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 assigned assembly lines and feeder subassemblies from process definition, tooling, and pilot builds through validation, release, and sustainment.
- Design, procure, install, and commission fixtures, gauges, tooling, workstations, and ergonomic operator flows.
- Define and validate assembly sequences, PFMEAs, control plans, SPC, capability studies, first-article processes, and release criteria.
- Improve first-pass yield, throughput, takt time, equipment reliability, downtime, and cost of poor quality against agreed targets.
- Lead design-for-manufacturing decisions that balance assembly time, inspection, cost, safety, and field reliability.
- Investigate production issues and escapes, validate root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Create SOPs, work instructions, and training materials; train and qualify technicians and line leads.
- Coordinate capacity, layouts, equipment, and readiness with Design Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and Operations; deliver a validated pilot line and stabilize production.
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