About Zipline
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are 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. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
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.
About You & the Role
Zipline builds, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that move essential goods. In this role, you will help turn electro-mechanical aircraft, docks, and logistics hardware into safe, reliable, repeatable production processes that support field operations.
Based at Zipline’s South San Francisco manufacturing facility, you will work alongside manufacturing engineers, technicians, and cross-functional partners on final assembly and feeder sub-assemblies. You will own bounded engineering tasks, learn on the factory floor, and help improve quality, throughput, and production readiness.
This individual-contributor role welcomes new graduates and early-career engineers. Relevant internships, co-ops, academic or personal projects, and hands-on manufacturing experience can demonstrate your readiness; there is no experienced-hire years threshold. You will take ownership of clearly scoped tasks with technical guidance and review, build factory-floor judgment, and grow your ability to deliver manufacturing improvements while meeting aerospace safety and field-reliability requirements.
Rare travel between sites may be required during ramp and sustainment. Nights or weekends may be needed to support critical production ramps or outages.
What You’ll Do
Help turn assembly ideas into pilot builds, validated processes, and production improvements.
Design and improve fixtures, gauges, tooling, and workstations with technical guidance and review.
Learn how process decisions are tested through PFMEAs, control plans, capability studies, first-article inspections, and validation.
Use factory observations and production data to identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, yield, throughput, and downtime.
Investigate production issues with technicians and engineers, test possible root causes, and verify corrective actions.
Write clear work instructions and process records, and support technician and operator training.
Contribute to design-for-manufacturing, layout, capacity, and equipment work; share progress and raise safety, quality, or schedule risks promptly.
What You’ll Bring
A BS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field is required.
Hands-on experience through internships, co-ops, laboratories, student teams, academic or personal projects, or manufacturing work, with examples of your contribution and testing.
Foundational knowledge of…