Base Salary
$165k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own SIL, HIL, EOLT, and bench test systems from prototype through production deployment and field sustainment.
- Architect, implement, and maintain software for test orchestration, data capture, analysis, reporting, and manufacturing dashboards.
- Integrate test software with boards, sensors, motion systems, power systems, and DAQ instrumentation, including board bring-up and sensor calibration.
- Define test standards, pass/fail criteria, validation protocols, and CI/validation pipelines that gate flight and manufacturing system changes.
- Lead root-cause investigations for test and production failures and drive corrective actions to closure.
- Deliver measurable improvements in test coverage, failure detection time, test cycle time, defect escape rates, throughput, yield, and reliability.
- Coordinate with firmware, hardware, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, and field operations teams, including vendor hardware and site installations.
- Provide production support through on-call rotations and troubleshoot systems at manufacturing and distribution sites.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building integration or test software that interfaces with hardware.
- Strong Python and C/C++ programming skills, Linux system administration experience, and experience with Git, CI, and test automation frameworks.
- Hands-on embedded systems experience, including board bring-up, instrumentation, datasheet interpretation, and HIL/SIL/EOL test architectures.
- Experience delivering automation used in factory or safety-critical environments against production schedules and quality targets.
- Demonstrated ownership of cross-disciplinary test or integration programs from end to end.
- Track record of shipping systems with quantified impact on throughput, yield, defects, or reliability.
- Ability to drive cross-functional technical decisions, write acceptance criteria, and escalate issues appropriately.
- Willingness to work onsite regularly, participate in on-call rotations, meet high-impact deadlines, and travel to support installations or production ramps.
- Candidates requiring visa sponsorship may discuss their needs during the hiring process.
Benefits
- Starting cash compensation is described as a target range, with potential additional equity, overtime pay, discretionary bonuses, sales incentives, medical, dental, vision insurance, and paid time off.
- Primarily onsite in South San Francisco with regular office attendance required.
- Typical travel is up to 20% during the first year, with possible increases during launches or product transitions.
- Includes regular production-support rotations and periodic urgent in-factory or field troubleshooting.
- Zipline can sponsor visas.
- Zipline is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes candidates from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.
About Zipline
Zipline was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest automated delivery system. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world and is making good on the promise of building an equitable and more resilient global supply chain. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart and enabling leading healthcare providers to bring care into the home in the United States, Zipline is transforming the way goods move. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Zipline is inspiring people, governments, and businesses to imagine what is possible when goods can move as seamlessly as information. To join the team, check out our career page: https://flyzipline.com/careers/