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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Salary
$145,000–$220,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Mechanical Engineer - Stress Analysis

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 and maintain the top-level Global Finite Element Model (GFEM): set and enforce standards for material properties, numbering, interfaces, model fidelity, and validation procedures.
  • Produce rapid analysis studies and design guidance: perform hand calculations and create lightweight beam/shell FEMs to drive design trades;
  • Structural sizing and certification support: perform static, dynamic, stability, and damage-tolerance analyses for metallic and composite primary/secondary structures;
  • Test planning and correlation: define pre-test predictions, instrumentation plans, and post-test correlation workflows;
  • Failure investigation and corrective actions: lead root-cause investigations for test and field failures, generate corrective design changes, and work with manufacturing, design, reliability, and test teams to close…
  • Cross-functional ownership and tooling: collaborate daily with design, systems, reliability, test, and flight operations;
  • Field and flight-test support: support flight-test campaigns and field remediation events on-site, execute rapid test fixes, and prioritize fleet-impacting issues to minimize downtime and preserve flight schedules.
  • Measurable outcomes you will be accountable for: reduction in product level cost per delivery, GFEM release cadence (e.g., weekly/monthly to match config updates), reduction in structural repeat failures across fleet,…
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