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Zipline · 2 hours ago

Staff Flight Test Operator, Half Moon Bay

Half Moon Bay, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$46.50/hr - $55/hr

2+ years exp

Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move, focusing on equitable access and innovative logistics solutions. The Staff Flight Test Operator will lead the planning and execution of large-scale flight testing operations, ensuring precision and safety while driving engineering insights from test results.

DeliveryDronesElectric VehicleHome Health CareLogisticsRoboticsSupply Chain Management

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Serve as a Senior cross-functional leader, aligning Design Engineering, Flight Test Engineering, Operations, and site leadership

Work with engineering teams to prioritize test execution - ensuring the highest-value tests are executed first

Manage resource planning, and infrastructure bring-up for major validation campaigns

Execute complex flight tests, including prelight instrumentation, monitoring of automated tests, incident response, and data collection

Rapidly debug and resolve flight test issues across hardware, software, controls, and operations

Analyze flight data to identify anomalies, validate performance, and recommend next steps

Generate clear, actionable test reports that drive engineering decision-making

Support FAA Type Certification activities by executing specific test protocols, demonstrations, and documentation tasks

Identify and lead operational process, software tooling, and infrastructure improvements to increase test precision, insights, capacity, and velocity

Serve as shift lead when needed, ensuring safe, high quality, and well coordinated test execution

Mentor and support junior flight test operators, offering guidance, training, removing blockers, reinforcing SOP compliance and improving their technical and operational performance

Travel to support flight operations at different test sites as needed

Flexibility to work an array of schedule structures including, but not limited to: day, swing, nights, weekends, rotational

Qualification

Flight Test EngineeringData AnalysisAviation ExperiencePart 107 LicenseRobotics TestingTechnical LeadershipCommunication SkillsProblem SolvingTeam Mentoring