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Hardware Test & Prototype Technician, Dropbox
The Hardware Test & Prototype Technician will assemble, modify, and test Dropbox autonomous package-loading hardware. This hands-on role involves building prototypes, instrumenting systems for data collection, and collaborating with engineering teams to refine designs and troubleshoot failures.
Staff Software Engineer, Healthcare — Customer Experience
Staff-level full-stack engineer on Zipline's Nest Applications team, owning customer-facing software for ordering, tracking, and managing healthcare drone deliveries end to end. Works across modern frontend (React) and backend (Go/Python) with a strong focus on UX, experimentation, and gradual rollouts.
Staff Software Engineer, Healthcare — Systems & Integrations
Staff engineer on Zipline's Nest Applications team, owning backend-heavy full-stack systems for healthcare delivery operations — fulfillment, maintenance, inventory, and flight workflows. Core technologies are Go, Postgres, and Kafka-style event-driven distributed systems, with strong emphasis on APIs, integrations, and technical leadership.
Embedded Firmware Engineer
Owns C++ firmware for the microcontrollers running Zipline's autonomous drone delivery aircraft — building Ethernet/serial communication interfaces, optimizing real-time performance, and developing Rust-based tooling and simulations to test and diagnose firmware at scale. Hybrid role based at the South San Francisco headquarters.
ML Infrastructure Engineer
Builds and operates the ML training and inference infrastructure behind Zipline's autonomous drone delivery platform — data ingestion, dataset management, distributed training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines. Core stack includes Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, and AWS with infrastructure-as-code.
Senior Motion Designer
Zipline, a drone delivery company, is hiring a Senior Motion Designer in South San Francisco to create motion graphics and animation for brand videos, product launches, and technical explainers that make its autonomous delivery technology clear and compelling. Core tools include After Effects, Cinema 4D/Blender, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Figma.
Data Analytics Intern (Spring 2027)
Spring 2027 in-person internship (Jan-Apr) on Zipline's factory-floor engineering team in South San Francisco. The intern analyzes manufacturing, inventory, and quality data using SQL and Python, builds reports/dashboards in tools like Mode, Streamlit, or Sigma, and partners with production, quality, and supply-chain teams to turn data into operational decisions.
Data Analytics Intern (Summer 2027)
Full-time, in-person Summer 2027 internship on Zipline's Integration, Quality & Manufacturing Engineering team in South San Francisco. The intern analyzes manufacturing, inventory, and quality data using SQL, Python, and BI tools like Mode, Streamlit, or Sigma to help the drone delivery factory floor make faster, data-driven decisions.
Senior Software Engineer, ASW Launch Ops
Senior individual contributor on Zipline's ASW Launch Ops team, building a greenfield full-stack operational platform that takes new drone-delivery markets from idea to live, revenue-generating network — covering site acquisition, permitting, construction, deployment tracking, and launch readiness. Hands-on work across Python, Go, PostgreSQL, React, and AWS; remote in the USA with regular travel.
Flight Test Engineer Intern (Spring 2027)
Zipline, the world's largest drone delivery service, is hiring a full-time, in-person Flight Test Engineering Intern (Spring 2027) in South San Francisco. The intern analyzes flight test data logs (Python, Databricks, SQL), designs and runs flight test campaigns, and supports hands-on flight operations for its autonomous delivery drones.
Senior Embedded Software Validation Engineer - Avionics SW
Leads validation strategy and execution for avionics software on Zipline's autonomous drone delivery flight computer — designing nominal, stress, and edge-case tests from simulation through flight testing, building hardware test infrastructure and automated monitoring tools, and debugging failures across embedded Linux, firmware, and application layers to support safe software releases.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Avionics SW
Own end-to-end avionics subsystems (GNSS, cellular, IMU) at Zipline: write flight- and safety-critical embedded Linux software in C++ or Rust, build diagnostics/validation tooling and hardware-in-the-loop tests, and drive RCA on high-severity fleet incidents for its autonomous drone delivery logistics platform.
Sr. Manager, Software Engineering – Marketplace
Zipline, a drone delivery company, is hiring a Sr. Manager of Software Engineering to lead the team building Marketplace Management Tools — internal software for running and improving its delivery marketplace. The role is hands-on people and product leadership: hiring and coaching engineers, owning the roadmap, and guiding architecture, working closely with Product and Operations.
Technical Program Manager - Trust and Safety
Zipline, a drone delivery and autonomous logistics company, is hiring a Technical Program Manager to lead privacy and trust programs for its marketplace. Day to day this means driving consumer rights/DSAR workflows, data mapping, retention and deletion policies, fraud and account-takeover response, and privacy compliance across product, engineering, legal, and security teams.
Staff Software Engineer – Integrations Platform
A hands-on staff engineer who owns the technical direction of Zipline's partner integrations platform: building frontend/backend SDKs, reusable connector patterns, sandbox environments and automated testing so partners can integrate delivery APIs (POS, ordering, menu sync) reliably. Requires 7+ years backend/distributed systems with deep Go or Python skills.
Firmware Engineer Intern (Spring 2027)
Zipline is hiring a full-time, onsite Firmware Engineer Intern (Spring 2027, January–April/May) in South San Francisco to write C++ firmware for the microcontrollers on its autonomous delivery drones, working on communication buses, real-time performance, and Rust-based testing tooling alongside hardware and embedded Linux engineers.
Firmware Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)
Zipline is hiring a full-time, onsite firmware engineering intern (Summer 2027) in South San Francisco to write C++ firmware for the microcontrollers on its autonomous delivery drones, build Ethernet/serial communication interfaces, optimize real-time performance, and develop Rust-based test tooling and simulations.
Hardware Test Technician, Avionics
Hands-on avionics test technician at Zipline, the drone delivery company: builds, reworks, integrates, and tests electromechanical avionics hardware, debugs test failures, and documents results while working closely with test engineers in a South San Francisco lab.
Senior Power Electronics Engineer - Ground Systems
Senior power electronics engineer on Zipline's Ground Systems team, designing drone charging and docking infrastructure end to end — from requirements and schematic capture (Altium) through validation and volume production of AC-DC/DC-DC converters and battery charging systems.
Head of Information Security
Zipline's Head of Information Security owns company-wide security and privacy strategy, leads a lean technical security org across application, product, and corporate security, and works hands-on with engineers on threat modeling, incident response, and cloud/embedded/aircraft security. Onsite in South San Francisco, five days a week.