Senior Systems Engineer

Do you enjoy tackling the most cross-disciplinary parts of a complex program?

If being an engineering leader on the team driving us to achieve our ambitious goals to scale operations and production, improve reliability, level-up our customer experience, and efficiently mature our processes to support all of this appeals to you, read on.

Zipline was founded by engineers dedicated to making the world a better place.

We are scaling around the world and we need someone to join our team who is excited to help level up Systems Engineering at Zipline.

Every day, your commitment and technical leadership will help save lives.

5+ years of real-world experience in safety critical electromechanical systems, for example in autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or industrial automation fields including systems/vehicle design experience

Serve as a trusted technical expert of deploying high-reliability, autonomous systems into safety-critical environments including owning requirements, metrics, test coverage, and validation processes to ensure we ship safe and robust systems

Own system and subsystem requirement definition, decomposition, and traceability

Define interfaces and drive cross disciplinary discussions to align on budgets

Develop frameworks and facilitate trade studies to optimize for performance, safety, and cost across key system architecture or operations decisions

Evaluate hardware and software release standards and test requirements

Partner with design engineering, other systems engineers and certification team to prove flight worthiness to regulators