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Zipline
Senior Electrical Engineer (Long Range Platform)
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$160,000 – $235,000 / year
Location:
San Francisco, CA, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
7 August 2026
What they need
- Zipline’s long-range drone platform began operations in Rwanda in 2016. With a fixed-wing design capable of flying over 200 km on a single charge, our drones enable fast, reliable delivery of critical medical supplies to remote communities. From helping new mothers in Rwanda to saving snake bite victims in Ghana, Zipline’s technology has already served millions across the African continent—delivering thousands of life-saving products daily
- The long range platform engineering team is responsible for designing the aircraft and the ground systems to enable launch and recovery. We’re looking for an electrical engineer excited to design real hardware that flies, operates in demanding environments and scales globally
- In this role, you’ll own electrical subsystems end-to-end: from architecture development and schematic design through bring-up, validation, production, and field support. You’ll work within an existing airborne architecture, owning meaningful subsystem improvements and enabling new capabilities while maintaining the stability of a live, production system
- In this role, you will develop hardware for our next generation platform architecture which involves designing electronics in at least one of the following fields: Microprocessors, high-speed communication, GNSS, brushless DC motor drives, power supply, battery, and more
- You’ll collaborate closely with firmware, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and operations teams to deliver hardware that balances practical constraints with elegant solutions
- Own the electrical design for volume production through a design cycle including requirements, prototype, schematic capture, layout, and validation
- Make impactful design decisions daily, while working with a high level of independence
- Lead trade studies, understand competing design priorities, and provide direction and clarity for burning down risk
- Collaborate cross-functionally with reliability, mechanical, embedded, and systems engineers in all stages of development, including:
- Concept: System requirement, specification
- Design: Schematic capture, PCB layout, system integration
- Validation: Function and reliability test
- Production: DFM, design drawings, manufacturing, EOL test, certification
- Deployment: Troubleshoot field issues, develop rapid mitigations, roll learnings into future design revision
- Travel occasionally to support supplier and manufacturer visit, product deployment, and field validation- A bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with a strong foundation in first principles engineering
- Lithium Ion battery pack design– BMS, safety, power distribution, etc
- Must be eligible to work in the US
- Must be able to work at Zipline’s South San Francisco office
- Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, hands on, collaborative, cross-functional environment
- BLDC motor drives
- Basic embedded communications busses (e.g. SPI, I2C, UART, CAN)
- Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical challenges to both fellow engineers and non-engineers alike
- Higher speed communications (e.g. Ethernet, LVDS)
- A desire to spend time in the engineering lab and experience with common lab equipment, such as an Oscilloscope, DMM, TDR, LCR, Network Analyzer, etc
- Experience with at least some of the following areas:
- Mixed signal design and high speed design
- Minimum 4 years experience designing complex PCBAs, including: circuit analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, packaging, integration, production, and board-level validation
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