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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Aug 20, 2026
Full-time

Senior Motor Dyno 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

  • Define requirements and architectures for motor characterization, inspection, and durability dynamometers.
  • Design, build, commission, and maintain dyno systems for propulsion and auxiliary motors.
  • Select and integrate motors, load machines, inverters, torque transducers, speed sensors, power analyzers, thermal instrumentation, cooling systems, fixtures, and data-acquisition hardware.
  • Develop mechanical interfaces, shafting, couplings, guarding, alignment strategies, and structural systems for safe and accurate testing.
  • Design electro-mechanical systems including low-voltage power distribution, grounding, shielding, interlocks, emergency stops, and fault protection.
  • Develop automated test sequences, supervisory controls, data acquisition, and post-processing tools using Python and related software platforms.
  • Establish a common user interface and software architecture across Zipline’s motor-dyno ecosystem, including standardized data access, test-profile programming, reusable test-profile libraries, and common workflows…
  • Build shared tools that allow engineers to discover, configure, execute, and analyze dyno tests consistently without requiring dyno-specific knowledge or bespoke workflows.
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