- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Manufacturing
- Posted
- Jul 13, 2026
- Salary
- $145,000–$220,000 a year
RF Test Engineer (Senior - Staff)
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 the design validation and test planning efforts for our RF products; including both design validation and manufacturing test.
- Develop a deep understanding of components under test becoming a subject matter expert in the component’s behavior under a range of environmental, performance, and system conditions.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and external vendors to deploy high quality test plans and test systems in a timely manner to support production timelines
- Drive end-to-end test campaigns from development through design validation, certification, and production (often working all facets simultaneously).
- Triage and root-cause field failures, using data analysis, test heritage, correlation to operating conditions, and one-off test campaigns.
- Support the certification testing to enable our aircraft to fly in the real world.
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