Zipline – Head of {Hardware} – Platform 1 (P1) – sUAS Information

Do you need to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to remodel the best way items transfer. Our goal is to resolve the world’s most pressing and sophisticated entry challenges by constructing, manufacturing and working the primary prompt supply and logistics system that serves all people equally, wherever they’re. From powering Rwanda’s nationwide blood supply community and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to offering on-demand residence supply for Walmart, to enabling healthcare suppliers to convey care on to U.S. properties, we’re reworking the best way issues transfer for companies, governments and customers. The know-how is complicated however the concept is straightforward: a teleportation service that delivers what you want, once you want it. Utilizing robotics and autonomy, we’re decarbonizing supply, reducing highway congestion, and lowering fossil gasoline consumption and air air pollution, whereas offering equitable entry to billions of individuals and constructing a extra resilient international provide chain.

Be a part of Zipline and assist us to make good on our promise to construct an equitable and extra resilient international provide chain for billions of individuals.

About You and The Function  

As Head of Flight Programs, you’ll lead the workforce liable for all the pieces that makes our long-range drone system platform function, together with the plane and floor techniques  from avionics and energy techniques to mechanical design, embedded firmware, and manufacturing integration. You’ll personal the reliability, efficiency, and manufacturability of Zipline’s long-range drone platform, making certain it continues to satisfy the world’s most demanding operational and security requirements as we scale globally. This can be a deeply technical, cross-disciplinary management position. You’ll convey collectively mechanical, electrical, and software program engineers into one cohesive workforce, driving system-level trade-offs throughout design, manufacturing, and area efficiency. You’ll associate carefully with Purposes Software program, Operations, and Manufacturing to make sure each plane we construct and function is secure, environment friendly, value efficient,  and simple to take care of at scale. If you happen to’re a realistic techniques thinker who thrives on productionizing complicated electromechanical techniques into dependable merchandise that carry out in the true world, that is your alternative to form the guts of Zipline’s know-how.

What You’ll Do  

• System Possession & Structure: Personal the end-to-end structure of the Flight Programs, integrating mechanical, electrical, and embedded elements right into a cohesive, secure, and scalable platform
• Reliability & Efficiency: Outline and uphold requirements for security, robustness, and maintainability; drive validation and steady enchancment utilizing area and check knowledge.
• Design for Manufacture & Service: Accomplice with manufacturing and supply-chain groups to make sure designs meet value, high quality, and throughput targets whereas remaining serviceable within the area.
• Fingers-On Management: Keep near the engineering work: lead design and code critiques, root-cause analyses, and demanding technical choices.
• Group Growth: Rent, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary workforce spanning mechanical, electrical, and software program domains; construct technical depth and management at each degree.
• Cross-Useful Integration: Collaborate with Purposes Software program, Operations, Enterprise and Regulatory groups to align interfaces, knowledge, and certification efforts.
• Strategic Execution: Symbolize Flight Programs and engineering inside the Platform 1 management workforce, offering clear visibility into progress, dangers, and system-level trade-offs. Keep up-to-date with firm priorities, dangers, and main hurdles.

What You’ll Deliver 

• Confirmed expertise: 10+ years designing, constructing, and scaling complicated electromechanical or aerospace techniques, together with 5+ years main multidisciplinary engineering groups.
• Depth throughout core disciplines: Experience in at the least two of: mechanical design, electrical/energy techniques, embedded firmware, techniques integration, or reliability engineering; working fluency and intensive expertise  throughout the remainder.
• Programs pondering & architectural judgment: Capability to stability efficiency, value, threat, and manufacturability; is aware of when to refactor versus stabilize.
• Operational rigor: Expertise in DFM/DFA, verification & validation check campaigns, and scaling merchandise from prototype via excessive quantity manufacturing.
• Information-informed execution: Makes use of knowledge and engineering experience  collectively to prioritize enhancements and speed up studying.
• Cross-functional management: Robust collaborator throughout {hardware}, software program, manufacturing, and operations; capable of translate between technical and operational wants and collaborate with fellow leaders to drive firm priorities.
• Group constructing & mentorship: Monitor file of hiring and growing high-performing, numerous groups with a tradition of accountability and possession.

What Else You Have to Know   

This position is predicated out of our South San Francisco HQ with a minimal of 4 days per week in workplace. Should be eligible to work within the US and journey globally as wanted.

Zipline is an equal alternative employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any sort with out regard to race, colour, ancestry, nationwide origin, faith or non secular creed, psychological or bodily incapacity, medical situation, genetic info, intercourse (together with being pregnant, childbirth, and associated medical circumstances), sexual orientation, gender id, gender expression, age, marital standing, army or veteran standing, citizenship, or different traits protected by state, federal or native legislation or our different insurance policies.

We worth variety at Zipline and welcome functions from those that are historically underrepresented in tech. If you happen to just like the sound of this place however usually are not certain if you’re the proper match, please apply!

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