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About the Role
Join Zipline’s Long Range Platform team as an owner-oriented Mechanical Engineer to design, validate, and deliver critical airframe and electromechanical hardware for long-distance autonomous delivery aircraft. This role focuses on reducing aircraft weight, increasing reliability in harsh conditions, and enabling higher sortie rates, with end-to-end hardware responsibility from concept to sustainment.
Responsibilities
- Own specific Long Range mechanical subsystems and serve as the primary technical lead from concept to sustained production.
- Translate operational and fleet requirements into quantitative mechanical performance targets and design architectures.
- Produce and iterate detailed CAD models, tolerance stacks, GD&T, and manufacturing drawings for volume production.
- Run first-principles analysis and engineering simulation, validating with bench tests and flight-representative test rigs.
- Prototype rapidly, lead hands-on build-test-iterate campaigns, and produce test plans with go/no-go metrics.
- Define and own verification matrices, failure modes & effects, and corrective actions through qualification and production ramp.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve tradeoffs, supplier nonconformances, and production issues.
- Support field deployments and production startups, ensuring proper documentation and procedures are in place.
- Act as the escalation owner for mechanical issues impacting fleet operations.
Requirements
- 4+ years of industry experience designing electromechanical and structural assemblies.
- Demonstrable ownership of complex subassemblies through full product cycles.
- Deep CAD fluency, rigorous GD&T skills, and experience producing manufacturing-ready drawings and inspection criteria.
- Proven track record applying FEA, hand calculations, tolerance analysis, and test correlation.
- Hands-on prototyping and test experience, including building fixtures and closing design loops from test data.
- Direct supplier engagement experience, including negotiating DFM changes and resolving quality issues.
- Experience with structural components, mechanisms, fastener systems, composites or metallic airframe-scale assemblies, and designing for field serviceability.
- Willingness and ability to travel to suppliers, production sites, and field depots.
- Strong bias for taking end-to-end ownership until verified fixes are in production and fielded.
Skills
- CAD
- GD&T
- FEA
- Hand calculations
- Tolerance analysis
- Prototyping
- Test validation
- Supplier engagement
- DFM
- Structural components
- Mechanisms
- Fastener systems
- Composites
- Metallic airframe assemblies
- Serviceability design
Location
- Long Range engineering location
Work Type
- On-site
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years industry experience
Salary/Compensations
- $145,000 - $220,000
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
- Sales incentives
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
About the Company
- 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 largest 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 prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.
- We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.
- As set forth in Zipline ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.