Electrical Engineer, Zipline
Reliability
$150-180k
3-5 days a week in office
Transforming the way goods move
Open for applications
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150-180k
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To open up access to emergency medical care to everyone in the world.
Role
Who you are
- A background in Electrical Engineering, plus a passion for analysis and testing
- Past experiences developing safety-critical systems resilient to harsh climatic environments, mechanical vibration, ESD, and high electrical noise. For example, aerospace, infrastructure, medical, and transportation fields
- A proven track record of setting, driving to, and achieving reliability budgets in complex systems
- Knowledge of HALT, ALT, ESS methods; experience specifying and implementing testing for the right application. E.g. test stress, duration, and sample size
- Familiarity with making data-driven decisions from large multivariate datasets, including probability and statistical methods, using programming (Matlab, R, Python, SQL)
- Strength applying appropriate failure analysis techniques that add value (Weibull analysis, etc.)
- Comfort interpreting electrical schematic and SLD drawings for failure mode and root cause identification
- Experience working with external vendors to predict and manage reliability of commercial equipment
What the job involves
- As a Hardware Reliability Engineer focused on Avionics at Zipline, you will apply your knowledge of electrical hardware systems at the board and system level along with reliability theory to meet safety, on-time delivery, and unit-cost objectives for our aircraft
- We have completed more than a 750,000 flights around the globe; with each package we ship, your work contributes directly toward improving the lives of our customers and their communities
- In this role, you will have clear ownership of our Avionics reliability program from concept-to-field. We expect you to set reliability goals, drive our engineering team to reach those goals, and serve as a cross-functional technical expert along the way
- Quantify reliability goals for Zipline’s Avionics; maintain a reliability budget through that product’s lifetime
- Decompose system and sub-system level reliability goals into actionable requirements
- Influence key design decisions and concept trades for new products, applying analytical reliability methods to uncover risks and opportunities early in the design process (FTA, RBD)
- Bridge electrical / mechanical / software disciplines by facilitating design risk assessment techniques (FMEA/FMECA, etc.) at the critical moment
- Quantify environmental stresses and field usage using data analysis methods to become actionable by design
- Develop and maintain hardware life-stress models with a physics-of-failure approach
- Develop hardware validation test plans and technical test specifications to demonstrate lifetime reliability and environmental objectives
- Thrive in leading multiple problem-solving efforts; contribute and validate solutions for issues discovered through testing or in the field
- Monitor reliability performance of the system throughout development and deployment in the real world, and implement lessons learned into the process
Our take
Zipline is transforming the way goods move by creating the first logistics system that serves all humans equally via a drone delivery service. As the first emergency drone logistics operation, Zipline is fundamentally changing how we transport emergency medical supplies and has expanded into commercial deliveries. It's partnered with several major companies, including Walmart.
Zipline has an edge over potential future competitors as the company has thousands of hours and over 35 million miles of flight to prove the system is safe and effective. It’s also one of the first companies to receive a full commercial operating certificate, putting Zipline in a strong position to continuously branch out to other markets.
The unicorn company operates globally and has signed its first government contract with Rwanda to provide up to 2 million drone deliveries by 2029. It is also aiming to start commercial deliveries to individual households in the near future. With big companies such as Amazon and Walmart examining “instant” delivery options, Zipline has a proven track record and the equipment and logistics in place to provide such services. 2023 funding pushed Zipline's valuation to a staggering $4.2 billion, indicating a bright future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2023
$330m
SERIES F
Jul 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $813.7m
Company benefits
- Generous parental leave
- Generous vacation policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly team events
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Healthy, delicious meals and snacks
- Dog-friendly offices
Company values
- Customer obsession - The standard of care
- Ownership - Getting the job done
- Transparency - Breeds trust
- Continuous improvement - Tackling hard problems
- Serve Your Species - Empowering one another
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Having studied Economics and Biotechnology at Harvard, they worked for almost 11 months as a self-employed rock climber. They combined their academic and practical experience to co-found Zipline in July 2011.
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