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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Aug 21, 2026
Salary
$145,000–$225,000 a year
Full-time

Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer, Dropbox

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 critical Dropbox electrical systems from requirements and architecture through production release and field deployment.
  • Develop electrical architecture for power distribution, control electronics, sensors, actuators, user interfaces, communications, and service diagnostics.
  • Translate product behavior, safety analyses, environmental conditions, mechanical interfaces, and field workflows into electrical requirements.
  • Define electrical success metrics such as power consumption, sensing coverage, fault-detection performance, environmental margin, production yield, and field reliability.
  • Select and integrate sensors, motors, actuators, motor drivers, power supplies, converters, protection devices, connectors, harnesses, and communications interfaces.
  • Design or guide the development of PCBAs, schematics, layouts, cables, wiring harnesses, interconnects, and electrical assembly documentation.
  • Own power budgets, grounding and shielding strategy, connector architecture, current-carrying margins, thermal derating, and protection coordination.
  • Design for electrical faults including overcurrent, short circuit, reverse polarity, overvoltage, undervoltage, brownouts, electrostatic discharge, connection errors, and loss of communication.
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