Senior Controls Engineer - Delivery
About The Position
Zipline's Delivery Controls team is responsible for modeling, developing, and testing the tools and critical flight software systems that enable our droid to complete deliveries autonomously and that enable Zipline to rapidly iterate and improve our products, while continuing to serve our customers through various environments. We thrive on developing novel solutions to ensure our delivery platforms can function in a wide range of increasingly challenging conditions, ensuring that we serve everyone in the world equally. From pushing the limits of the hardware to informing changes to improve resilience and manufacturing; Fundamental physics based analysis is central to our continued success.In this role you'll use a range of analysis techniques to understand our system performance and how it is affected by design choices, limitations and requirements, as well as proactively collaborating across teams to drive improvements to our products. Working with the wider team, you'll use data from flight testing and our global fleet of customer aircraft to improve simulations and develop tools to continually find new insights that will improve our products. By staying close to our customers, you'll learn what really works and where we should be spending our time to drive our next phase of growth. Success in this role leads directly to improved operational capability of our logistics network.
Requirements
- Professional experience in one or more of the following areas: flight dynamics and control, dynamic modeling of complex physical systems, model identification, statistical analysis. Ideally you will have used your skills in these areas to successfully ship one or more complex products.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm and proficiency in both simulation practices and hands-on work with hardware, spanning from bench-level experimentation to comprehensive flight tests.
- Software skills in both technical computing (MATLAB, SciPi, Julia, etc) and embedded software (Rust, C, C++), with experience working in a large, complex, multi-developer environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop dynamic models of complex systems and components that are core to our high fidelity 6DOF simulation.
- Analyze and improve the performance of existing and future droid designs through a combination of simulation and flight tests.
- Play a key role in deriving and verifying requirements for both hardware components and software interfaces, while balancing the technical need and broader product prerequisites as well as safety and regulatory standards.
- Identify and develop processes and tools to improve efficiency and protect against regressions.
- Design and implement onboard integrity tests to monitor how well the droid is flying and aid in understanding off-nominal performance and delivery failures, both in research and validation flights, as well as in the production fleet.
- Work in a high performing team, sharing your experience and improving efficiency while developing the next generation of logistics.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
