2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own fleet health and asset visibility systems covering aircraft, infrastructure, and distributed site assets.
- Build maintenance orchestration platforms for issue management, work orders, technician workflows, and scheduled maintenance execution.
- Develop airworthiness, configuration control, usage tracking, lifecycle, and preventative maintenance systems.
- Create operational tooling for maintenance teams, service engineering, and flight operations.
- Build reliability automation and event-driven systems connecting live operational signals to issue detection and repair workflows.
- Own critical platform components end to end, including technical and product decisions, architecture, and production delivery.
Requirements
- Experience building reliable production systems in operationally complex environments.
- Strong backend and systems engineering judgment combined with product instinct and operational awareness.
- Ability to turn ambiguous reliability and maintenance problems into durable software systems.
- Strong focus on correctness, reliability, safety, and operator trust.
- Ability to simplify operational complexity and design abstractions that scale across fleets, assets, and workflows.
- Comfort working in environments where software, hardware, and operations are tightly coupled.
- Willingness and ability to own systems with real-world consequences and shape architecture, operational workflows, and platform direction.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off.
- Potential equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.
- Equal opportunity workplace that welcomes traditionally underrepresented candidates.
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About Zipline
Zipline designs, builds, and operates autonomous drone delivery systems for healthcare, retail, and public-sector customers. The privately held company runs end-to-end logistics—aircraft, software, and fulfillment—to deliver blood, vaccines, medicines, and consumer goods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Zipline operates across multiple continents; notable work includes Rwanda’s national blood deliveries and U.S. home delivery pilots with Walmart.