- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 21, 2026
- Salary
- $135,000–$225,000 a year
Senior Power Electronics Engineer - Ground Systems
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 electrical design of Zipline’s drone charging systems for volume production through a full design cycle including requirements, prototype, schematic capture, layout, and validation.
- Shape the architecture of Zipline’s next generation product, making impactful design decisions daily, while working with a high level of independence.
- Lead trade studies, understand competing design priorities, and provide direction and clarity for burning down risk.
- Proactively seek out opportunities for improvement in system and component level design.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with reliability, mechanical, embedded, and systems engineers in all stages of development, including:
- Concept: System requirement, specification, tradeoff
- Design: Schematic capture, PCB layout, system integration
- Validation: Function and reliability test
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