Senior Mechanical Test Engineer, SMI
About The Position
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries. Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses. 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 thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. Zipline is at the forefront of a logistics revolution: We design, manufacture, and operate our own fleet of autonomous drones to make deliveries of supplies to people in need within minutes, 7 days a week. We are hiring Mechanical Test Engineers across three different teams; Ground Systems, Structures & Mechanisms, and Powertrain & Battery. We are a hardware engineering organization with Mechanical, Electrical, Embedded Systems and Test Engineering and are responsible for the design of all flight hardware and operations equipment; this includes Safety Systems, Primary Structure, Launcher, Recovery System, Battery Chargers, Power System, Network System and countless other mechanisms critical to the function of the vehicle and ground systems. We are working on a product that can be deployed in hours, integrate seamlessly with our customers, and operate without human intervention while being deployed worldwide at scale.
Requirements
- Design for user experience of mechanical test systems. Ability to develop a machine that accomplishes complex interactions reliably and can be used by anyone with minimal training.
- Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals. Understanding the theory behind good design decisions and a proven track record of executing these designs to make a test system that is more reliable than the product it is testing.
- Cross functional team management experience such that you can balance the needs of structures, aero, embedded, and software engineering teams to create one product that works for all.
- Understand when to use a quick and dirty or scrappy solution and when it is worth time and money to make investments in the future.
- Must be eligible to work in the US.
- Must be able to work in person at Zipline’s South San Francisco headquarters.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for cradle-to-grave design and implementation of systems used to develop and prove concept functionality and key reliability metrics on the Zipline systems.
- Directly responsible for creation of several major test systems, some of which are well defined, and others which will require critical analysis of customer needs and what it will take to impress them before embarking upon the design process.
- Work with the product design and reliability teams to generate requirements for test systems that accurately capture the intended function of the vehicle while leaving the door open for future automation and high volume capacity.
- Explore and define product edge cases based on data collected from the field, existing logs, and in anticipation of future use cases and environments.
- Design, build, and maintain critical test systems.
- Manage test systems for early stage designs, ruthlessly prioritizing where efforts must be spent to get the most out of every day.
- Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and technicians.
- Pivot often as we navigate uncertain regulatory space and learn more about what it will take to really wow our customers.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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