Do you need to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to remodel the way in which items transfer. Our intention is to resolve the world’s most pressing and complicated entry challenges by constructing, manufacturing and working the primary instantaneous 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 dwelling supply for Walmart, to enabling healthcare suppliers to deliver care on to U.S. properties, we’re reworking the way in which issues transfer for companies, governments and customers. The expertise is advanced however the thought is straightforward: a teleportation service that delivers what you want, if you want it. By way of our expertise that features robotics and autonomy, we’re decarbonizing supply, lowering street congestion, and lowering fossil gas consumption and air air pollution, whereas offering equitable entry to billions of individuals and constructing a extra resilient international provide chain.
About The Crew And The Function
Do you thrive on not possible challenges and thrive in environments the place pace and creativity matter most? The New Merchandise crew at Zipline is our skunkworks, the place the place the boldest concepts are remodeled into actual techniques that change the longer term. We’re searching for an outstanding Mechanical Engineer to affix this group and assist design, prototype, and launch the following technology of Zipline merchandise.
It is a small, extremely selective crew of visionary engineers and builders who function on the reducing fringe of {hardware} and software program, reporting on to our CTO. When we’re not creating the corporate’s subsequent breakthrough platform, we’re dropped into the toughest issues anyplace within the group and anticipated to ship options that shift what is feasible. Alumni of this crew go on to steer Zipline’s most important efforts and drive the applied sciences that outline our trade. Little or no is understood publicly about this crew, however here’s a uncommon glimpse: https://spectrum.ieee.org/delivery-drone-zipline-design
What You’ll Do
As a Mechanical Engineer on the New Merchandise crew, you’ll use your engineering fundamentals and artistic instincts to design and construct the following technology of Zipline’s {hardware}. Your work will span throughout invention, prototyping, evaluation, and validation, and no two weeks will look the identical. On any given day, you could be:
- Embedding in hospital labs to uncover unmet wants and new alternatives
- Sketching and constructing flying machines that others would by no means dare to aim
- Prototyping in all the pieces from cardboard to polished {hardware} headed into buyer palms
- Collaborating straight with companions to make our expertise match seamlessly into their world
- Tackling knotty design and evaluation challenges on mission-critical mechanisms and constructions
- Pushing prototypes by means of lab and flight testing to quickly construct reliability and confidence
You’ll personal the design of main subsystems and even complete techniques, protecting structural parts, mechanisms, and electronics integration. You’ll make architecture-level choices, create designs that may scale, and quickly iterate primarily based on actual take a look at information. You’ll collaborate intently with electrical, software program, civil, NPI, and provide chain groups to show your designs into merchandise deployed within the subject. Hand calcs, fast builds, and quick iteration will information your course of, and autonomy will likely be your default.
What You’ll Convey
You’re an engineer who loves to maneuver quick, clear up exhausting issues, and construct issues which have by no means existed earlier than. You steadiness rigor with creativity and may zoom effortlessly between tough sketches, cardboard prototypes, and system-level CAD. You thrive in ambiguity, you personal your work end-to-end, and you know the way to ship designs that scale.
We’re searching for somebody who brings:
A basis in mechanical engineering robust sufficient to personal vital subsystems or complete techniques, spanning constructions, mechanisms, and electronics integrationA confirmed historical past of delivery, taking advanced designs by means of idea, prototyping, validation, and productionThe capacity to maneuver seamlessly between tough prototyping and detailed system-level CAD (20–40 components directly)Consolation with a variety of producing strategies together with welding, sheet steel, extrusion, CNC machining, injection molding, and moreExperience working intently with suppliers and contract producers to translate designs into scalable productionFluency in speaking concepts clearly, whether or not by means of fast sketches, sharp technical writing, or strategic shows tailor-made to your audience7+ years {of professional} mechanical engineering expertise and a Bachelor’s diploma in Mechanical EngineeringWillingness to relocate to the Bay Space and occasional journey (<10%) to prospects and suppliers
Good to Have
- NX as your main CAD software
- Expertise designing for safety-critical functions, together with making use of correct components of security and joint calculations
- Arms-on prototyping expertise, you take pleasure in constructing simply as a lot as designing
What Else You Want To Know
The beginning money wage vary for this function is $170,000 – $225,000. Please word that this can be a goal, beginning money vary for a candidate who meets the minimal {qualifications} for this function. The ultimate money pay for this function will rely on quite a lot of components, together with a selected candidate’s expertise, {qualifications}, expertise, working location, and projected impression. The overall compensation package deal for this function may embody: fairness compensation; discretionary annual or efficiency bonuses; gross sales incentives; advantages comparable to medical, dental and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage; paid break day; and extra.
Zipline is an equal alternative employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind with out regard to race, coloration, ancestry, nationwide origin, faith or spiritual creed, psychological or bodily incapacity, medical situation, genetic info, intercourse (together with being pregnant, childbirth, and associated medical situations), sexual orientation, gender identification, gender expression, age, marital standing, navy or veteran standing, citizenship, or different traits protected by state, federal or native legislation or our different insurance policies.
We worth range 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 should not certain in case you are the proper match, please apply!
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