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This role involves partnering with various teams to shape Zipline's commercial strategy, supporting financial planning, pricing models, and operational forecasts.

Lead daily flight test operations and Ground Test Operator team, ensure site readiness and safe test execution, coordinate cross-functional test campaigns, improve procedures and throughput, and act as Site Lead when needed.

Own material and asset flow for maintenance hubs: receive and inspect inbound parts, maintain ERP inventory accuracy, kit and deliver materials, manage fleet readiness and compliance, coordinate shipments, and improve processes through data-driven problem solving.

Own material and asset flow for maintenance hubs: receive and inspect inbound parts, maintain inventory accuracy, kit and deliver materials, manage fleet readiness, coordinate shipments, and drive process improvements to reduce maintenance delays.

Design, build, and execute mechanical test rigs, fixtures, and automated cycle systems to validate aircraft structures and mechanisms. Lead end-to-end validation campaigns, develop verification plans, perform data analysis and failure investigations, and work with design, manufacturing, and suppliers to drive corrective actions and release recommendations.

Lead electrical design and development for drone charging and docking infrastructure from concept to production. Own schematic capture, PCB layout, power electronics, MCU and high-speed communications design. Drive trade studies, validation, production readiness, and field troubleshooting while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Support supplier visits, deployments, and field validation.

Lead the development of Zipline's data platform for autonomy, ensuring reliable operation and effective data logging, processing, and ML training.

Lead structural analysis and own the Global Finite Element Model (GFEM). Produce rapid hand calculations and lightweight FEMs, perform static/dynamic/stability and damage-tolerance analyses, support certification and testing, define instrumentation and correlate tests, lead failure investigations and corrective actions, mentor contributors, and support flight-test and field remediation to improve fleet reliability, mass, and cost-per-delivery metrics.

Own design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft. Build and maintain IPC, OTA, logging, observability, and service-lifecycle interfaces on embedded Linux. Deliver production Rust/C++ code, lead cross-service architecture, debug across software/hardware boundaries, and establish safe, diagnosable engineering practices.

Own electrical subsystem design for Zipline's long-range fixed-wing drone from requirements through production and field support. Responsibilities include architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, validation, trade studies, manufacturing readiness, certification support, and cross-functional collaboration. Develop hardware in areas like microprocessors, high-speed communications, GNSS, BLDC motor drives, power/battery/BMS, and support field troubleshooting and supplier/manufacturer visits.