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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Oct 30, 2026
Salary
$153,000–$210,000 a year
Full-time

User Experience Designer: Hardware 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

  • Design end-to-end user experiences across physical and digital touchpoints, including aircraft, pods, docks, loading workflows, partner infrastructure, operator tools, and customer-facing moments.
  • Translate complex system behavior into clear interaction models, user journeys, service flows, and product requirements.
  • Partner with Engineers and Industrial Designers to define physical interactions, affordances, feedback, status communication, and error recovery.
  • Work with Digital Product teams to ensure consistency between physical systems behavior and software interfaces.
  • Conduct field research with operators, partners, customers, technicians, and internal teams to understand real-world workflows and pain points.
  • Identify design opportunities across system hardware, software, service, and operations.
  • Help prioritize user needs and translate them into product requirements.
  • Prototype and test interaction concepts quickly, using whatever fidelity is appropriate: sketches, diagrams, click-through prototypes, physical mockups, or in-field simulations.

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