Electrical Engineering Manager - Ground Systems

Zipline•South San Francisco, CA

12h

About The Position

The Ground Systems team at Zipline is in charge of all the infrastructures on the ground supporting autonomous delivery drones with docking, battery charging, thermal management, ground communication and preflight checks. This role is central to enable the next generation of drone logistics, solving complex challenges in power distribution, power conversion, battery charging, high performance microprocessor, high-speed network communication and system-level integration. Zipline is seeking an electrical engineering leader to manage a high performing team of electrical hardware design for the Ground Systems team. This technical leader will guide and grow these teams as well as be able to own parts of the design directly as the team scales. The teams will be responsible for architecting and developing custom Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs), integrated sensing and RF solutions, and complex industrial systems for new and existing ground systems hardware and validating the solutions for volume scale. Ground systems are flight and safety critical, installed worldwide, and Zipline will depend on this team to develop novel solutions that enable unprecedented scale and efficiency. Success will depend not only on technical innovation, but also on developing a deep understanding of the needs of customers.

Requirements

8+ years of demonstrated experience with electronics designs and system integration
2+ year leading a technical engineering team, and direct hiring management experience finding great talent
Experience working with products across various stages of development, from prototype to high volume production
Ability to operate in ambiguous and fast paced environments with demonstrated experience in handling priorities and collaborating across a complex organization
Demonstrated expertise with low voltage digital circuit design and/or power electronics design
You’re hands-on with hardware; you know your way around tools like oscilloscopes and signal generators

Responsibilities

Be the electrical engineering technical leader for ground systems design including low voltage electronics and PCBA development, power electronics and RF systems
Build your teams by hiring and coaching world class electrical engineering design and test teams
Drive architectural decisions and manage the requirements of the next-generation of Zipline’s ground system hardware to deliver safe, reliable, high volume and low cost products
Design and validate to relevant North American and international safety and certification standards for scaled deployments
Allocate resources within your team to the electrical engineering projects
Create and manage milestones and deliverables with your team
Maintain visibility across the hardware your team owns, and have the ability to deep dive into projects and challenges
Liaise with other technical leaders both within and outside of the Ground Systems Hardware team (Mechanical Design, Embedded Systems, Validation & Test, Field Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and more)
Leverage your technical leadership experience in hardware design to establish a team culture that biases towards action and tests ideas to achieve radically simple designs
Motivate your team with a clear vision and create ambitious plans for your team’s work while holding a high bar for technical quality
Establish best practices, standards, and design and release review processes that enable both high speed development and rigorous execution

Benefits

equity compensation
discretionary annual or performance bonuses
sales incentives
medical insurance
dental insurance
vision insurance
paid time off
leading the development of the future of global autonomous logistics and delivery
leading and growing a team of empowered world class engineers with real accountability for real-world outcomes
making a global impact
designing products for scale
improving the lives of millions through hardware that works every time