Senior / Staff Electrical Engineer - Avionics

Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that depend on reliable avionics, sensing, communications, power, and ground-support hardware.

These systems must work in the real world, at fleet scale, across changing environments, manufacturing variation, field operations, and rapid product evolution.

As a Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer, you will own electrical hardware for aircraft and supporting ground systems from architecture and design through bring-up, validation, release, production ramp, and fleet support.

You will work closely with electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, manufacturing, test, quality, supply-chain, and operations teams to build hardware that is safe, robust, manufacturable, and ready for global operation.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can design strong circuits, debug hard problems, and carry hardware all the way from first prototype to reliable fielded product.

Minimum 5 years experience designing and releasing electrical hardware for products that have shipped, flown, operated in the field, or otherwise seen real-world use.

Own avionics electrical subsystems from concept through design, validation, release, production ramp, and field support.

Design and develop PCBAs for aircraft and ground-support hardware, including digital, analog, sensing, communications, power, and control circuits.

Create and review schematics, select components, define interfaces, guide PCB layout, and ensure designs meet electrical, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and operational requirements.

Bring up new boards, write and execute validation plans, analyze test data, and drive design changes based on measured performance.

Lead root-cause investigations for electrical issues found during bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, flight test, or field operation.

Own corrective-action plans for fleet or production issues, including containment, investigation, design revision, release, and verification.