Zipline · 1 day ago
Senior Systems Engineer
South San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $210K/yr
5+ years expZipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move, aiming to solve urgent access challenges through innovative delivery systems. The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for deploying high-reliability autonomous systems in safety-critical environments, ensuring robust and safe system operations through technical expertise and leadership.
DeliveryDronesElectric VehicleHome Health CareLogisticsRoboticsSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
BS and/or MS in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field
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
Ability to solve complex multidisciplinary problems on schedule independently
The ability to dive in when appropriate to solve problems using tools such as your modeling language/tool of choice, systems modeling, and statistical analysis among others
Knowledge from designing systems that were resilient to harsh climatic environments, mechanical vibration, ESD, and/or high electrical noise
Experience with not only fail-safe fault tolerant modes but also fail-operative modes that enable the system to continue to operate through faults
Preferred
A proven track record setting up systems engineering processes in new projects and/or startup environments such as implementing requirements including processes, definition, decomposition, and verification
Sufficiently comfortable with energy budgets, flight dynamics, and statistical analysis methods to set the appropriate risk-based thresholds for things like energy margins and environmental limitations
Leadership skills to grow and develop a world class systems engineering team
Benefits
Equity compensation
Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
Sales incentives
Benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance
Paid time off
Company
Zipline
Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$971MKey Investors
U.S. Department of StateThe Rise FundKatalyst Ventures
2025-11-25Grant· $150M
2023-04-28Series F· $330M
2021-06-30Series E· $250M
Leadership Team
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Co-founder & CEO
Keenan Wyrobek
Founder, CTO and Product Architect
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