Jobs at Zipline

Design and own end-to-end electrical architecture for P2 charging towers, including power distribution, cable harnesses, BOM cost trade-offs, NEC/UL compliance, and AHJ sign-off. Support field deployments, perform harness design in RapidHarness/NX, and lead cost/reliability trade studies to scale globally. Ensure designs meet UL-listed raceway requirements and translate theoretical designs to real-world installations.

Own and grow Zipline's strategic restaurant partnerships: launch services, manage relationships, track success metrics, surface customer insights, drive cross-functional execution, and influence product roadmap to deliver business impact.

Design and build a secure, scalable platform for AI-enabled applications to integrate with Zipline production systems. Implement reusable APIs, gateways, middleware, and guardrails (auth, rate limits, observability) while partnering with AI engineers and service teams to ensure reliability, ownership, and safe production deployments.

Embed with Marketing, Commercial, and Growth teams to own measurement, reporting, and analysis of customer behavior and commercial performance. Define KPI frameworks, build dashboards and self-service reporting, translate analysis into recommendations, monitor trends and risks, and partner with Data Science and Product to improve data quality and automate reporting with AI-enabled workflows.

Design, validate, and document standardized maintenance processes for Zipline aircraft. Pilot workflows with technicians, implement process controls, apply lean/error-proofing, partner with engineering, reliability, tooling, training, and data to improve maintenance quality, safety, repeatability, and efficiency.

Own reliability strategy for mission-critical electronic subsystems, apply DfR and PoF, lead DFMEA, design and run ALT and environmental tests, perform root-cause failure analysis, define life limits and service intervals, and improve reliability processes across hardware and operations.

Build and own infrastructure and tools for validating autonomous features across planning, perception, and control. Develop scalable simulation, scenario generation, and automated validation pipelines to run and analyze thousands of tests. Collaborate with autonomy, systems, data, flight test, and QA teams to codify metrics, safety thresholds, and release validation practices.

Lead electrical design and development of high-reliability embedded systems for drone charging and docking. Own full hardware lifecycle from requirements, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, validation, and production. Drive architecture and trade studies, collaborate cross-functionally (mechanical, embedded, systems, reliability), support certification and manufacturing, and troubleshoot field deployments. Occasional travel to suppliers, manufacturers, and deployment sites.

Lead end-to-end project management for community engagement and market-launch programs: plan and run events, demos, and activations; create stakeholder communications and materials; coordinate cross-functional teams; track attendance, engagement, and follow-ups; and build repeatable processes to support market readiness.

As Head of State & Local Government Affairs, you'll lead Zipline's public policy and government relations strategy, building relationships with officials to support drone delivery services and oversee a growing team.

Lead design and development of high-performance power electronics for drone charging and docking infrastructure. Own system architecture through prototyping, PCB design, validation, production readiness, and field deployment. Collaborate cross-functionally to perform trade studies, reduce risk, and support suppliers and manufacturing with occasional travel.

Lead end-to-end social-first video production: ideate, capture (frequent field shoots), and edit short- and medium-form content optimized for Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube and web. Manage logistics, on-site production, post-production workflows, creators and partners, track performance, and iterate quickly to drive brand awareness and engagement. Collaborate cross-functionally across Communications, Social, and Marketing and travel (~30%).

Lead and grow Zipline's information security function: set strategy and roadmap, build security engineering systems and pipelines, embed security across product, infrastructure, data and cyber-physical systems, direct threat modeling, vulnerability management, testing, and incident response, and report security posture to executives and the board.

Lead end-to-end local and launch communications for new markets and sites: media and influencer outreach, messaging and content development, visual storytelling, events support, issue monitoring, cross-functional counsel, and spokesperson duties.

Define and own reliability strategy for mechanical subsystems, apply DfR/PoF, lead DFMEA, design accelerated and environmental tests, run failure analysis and life modeling, set verification criteria, and drive cross-functional reliability decisions to ensure hardware readiness for flight.

Design, develop, and deploy automation-centric test software and assets to validate avionics, sensors, and assemblies from prototype through production. Own test campaigns, coordinate cross-functional teams and vendors, triage field failures, root-cause issues, and build visualization and data-acquisition tools to streamline manufacturing and safety-critical validation.

Design and deliver mechanical subsystems from concept through production: translate requirements into CAD, drawings, BOMs, and verification plans; lead prototyping, FEA and first-principles analysis, test campaigns, supplier handoffs, and cross-functional integration to meet mass, life, and reliability targets.

Lead market strategy and performance for Austin: develop integrated marketing plans, prioritize local growth opportunities, coordinate cross-functional execution, measure success metrics, and surface customer insights to drive awareness, acquisition, referrals, merchant launches, and overall market growth.

Lead and grow the Flight Test Engineering team to define and execute validation strategy and campaigns across aircraft, software, hardware, docking, and fleet systems. Build automated test infrastructure, data pipelines, and reporting to produce rigorous release-readiness evidence, partner cross-functionally, and ensure safety and regulatory compliance.

Support commercial real-estate leasing legal work: manage lease intake, drafting, redlines, approvals, execution, and post-execution administration. Build templates, clause libraries, checklists, and workflows; coordinate with landlords, brokers, outside counsel, and internal teams; track pipelines, deadlines, obligations, and SLAs; identify bottlenecks and implement scalable processes to improve legal service levels.