Zipline
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Towers
Zipline, South San Francisco, California, us, 94083
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Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain. About Zipline
Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.
About You And The Role
Do you want to be at the forefront of developing new infrastructure hardware products, the first of its kind to deploy to cities and countries around the world? Do you want to move fast, ship hardware and help create a new modality for on-demand logistics? If you want to journey with us to integrate novel designs seamlessly into our customers’ infrastructure, read on!
The Ground Systems team is responsible for all of the hardware on the ground that enables our Zips to take off, fly, land and prepare for their next mission. We are developing a ubiquitous infrastructure solution for drone-based logistics akin to what the solar industry has achieved with solar panels deployed worldwide. Our goal is to develop elegant integration solutions that are modular, cost effective, and welcome in communities worldwide for a variety of customers making drone deliveries.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you will use your core technical competencies to develop innovative products for our ground systems equipment. You do not let “how it is normally done” limit the potential solution space but leverage your experiences, knowledge, and first principles thinking towards problem solving to create an optimal product. Physical scale does not daunt you whether the mechanism fits within your hand or is 10 meters long. You are comfortable solving complex problems with little direction and maximum autonomy. Hand calcs guide your thinking and designs and help you quickly bound a problem. You are biased to action and an efficient optimizer leaning on best practices and proven processes seemingly always getting things done in half the time. You are a technical mentor and resources to others on the team, able to share best practices and review work with any member of the team. You are a hands on prototyper, curious to learn quickly, humble enough to admit when you are wrong and tenacious enough to keep going until you’re right.
We are looking for an experienced mechanical engineer to own the design of entire systems and subassemblies for next generation products that are unlike anything that exists today. This will include design of structural components, mechanisms, and electronics integration. As a member of our core design team, you will make important decisions about the product architecture and create designs that will enable practical scale on a short timeline that will meet high product reliability targets. You will quickly iterate and downselect based on data from your analysis and test results from your prototypes. Collaboration cross functionally will be key with electrical, software, civil, NPI, ops and supply chain teams to bring your designs to production and into the field. Your designs will holistically solve problems, to balance capex and opex costs, while considering installation, operation and maintenance.
What You'll Bring
Proven track record owning complex subassemblies or full systems over at least 3 product programs (concept, prototype, validation, production)Strong fundamentals: load estimation, classic mechanics, structural hand calcs to guide part sizing, FEA and clean CAD designs.Excellent problem solving - you are tenacious and scientific in your approach while able to quickly explain concepts to othersFamiliarity with mechanism design and the integration of electrical components into hardware productsPractical knowledge of manufacturing methods such as welding, sheetmetal forming, extrusion, CNC machining, etcExperience partnering with contract manufacturers to ramp up production of high volume linesDemonstrated CAD fluency for system level ownership - 3D/2D of 20-50 parts simultaneouslyDisciplined processes: Your parts are released, BOMs are maintained, SOPs created for builds, and timelines are up-to-dateYou have true expertise in one area that will level up the teamExcellent communication - written, verbal, and visual. You know how to tailor to your audience with the right level of technical depth to be as effective as possible, including using basic tools in place of full CAD when it makes senseBachelor’s degree in Mechanical EngineeringAbility to periodically (
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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Zipline Join to apply for the
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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Zipline Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. About Zipline
Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.
Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain. About Zipline
Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.
About You And The Role
Do you want to be at the forefront of developing new infrastructure hardware products, the first of its kind to deploy to cities and countries around the world? Do you want to move fast, ship hardware and help create a new modality for on-demand logistics? If you want to journey with us to integrate novel designs seamlessly into our customers’ infrastructure, read on!
The Ground Systems team is responsible for all of the hardware on the ground that enables our Zips to take off, fly, land and prepare for their next mission. We are developing a ubiquitous infrastructure solution for drone-based logistics akin to what the solar industry has achieved with solar panels deployed worldwide. Our goal is to develop elegant integration solutions that are modular, cost effective, and welcome in communities worldwide for a variety of customers making drone deliveries.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you will use your core technical competencies to develop innovative products for our ground systems equipment. You do not let “how it is normally done” limit the potential solution space but leverage your experiences, knowledge, and first principles thinking towards problem solving to create an optimal product. Physical scale does not daunt you whether the mechanism fits within your hand or is 10 meters long. You are comfortable solving complex problems with little direction and maximum autonomy. Hand calcs guide your thinking and designs and help you quickly bound a problem. You are biased to action and an efficient optimizer leaning on best practices and proven processes seemingly always getting things done in half the time. You are a technical mentor and resources to others on the team, able to share best practices and review work with any member of the team. You are a hands on prototyper, curious to learn quickly, humble enough to admit when you are wrong and tenacious enough to keep going until you’re right.
We are looking for an experienced mechanical engineer to own the design of entire systems and subassemblies for next generation products that are unlike anything that exists today. This will include design of structural components, mechanisms, and electronics integration. As a member of our core design team, you will make important decisions about the product architecture and create designs that will enable practical scale on a short timeline that will meet high product reliability targets. You will quickly iterate and downselect based on data from your analysis and test results from your prototypes. Collaboration cross functionally will be key with electrical, software, civil, NPI, ops and supply chain teams to bring your designs to production and into the field. Your designs will holistically solve problems, to balance capex and opex costs, while considering installation, operation and maintenance.
What You'll Bring
Proven track record owning complex subassemblies or full systems over at least 3 product programs (concept, prototype, validation, production)Strong fundamentals: load estimation, classic mechanics, structural hand calcs to guide part sizing, FEA and clean CAD designs.Excellent problem solving - you are tenacious and scientific in your approach while able to quickly explain concepts to othersFamiliarity with mechanism design and the integration of electrical components into hardware productsPractical knowledge of manufacturing methods such as welding, sheetmetal forming, extrusion, CNC machining, etcExperience partnering with contract manufacturers to ramp up production of high volume linesDemonstrated CAD fluency for system level ownership - 3D/2D of 20-50 parts simultaneouslyDisciplined processes: Your parts are released, BOMs are maintained, SOPs created for builds, and timelines are up-to-dateYou have true expertise in one area that will level up the teamExcellent communication - written, verbal, and visual. You know how to tailor to your audience with the right level of technical depth to be as effective as possible, including using basic tools in place of full CAD when it makes senseBachelor’s degree in Mechanical EngineeringAbility to periodically (