Do you need to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to rework the way in which items transfer. Our goal is to unravel the world’s most pressing and sophisticated entry challenges by constructing, manufacturing and working the primary on the spot 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 residence supply for Walmart, to enabling healthcare suppliers to carry care on to U.S. houses, we’re remodeling the way in which issues transfer for companies, governments and customers. The know-how is advanced however the concept is easy: a teleportation service that delivers what you want, once you want it. Via our know-how that features robotics and autonomy, we’re decarbonizing supply, reducing street congestion, and lowering fossil gasoline consumption and air air pollution, whereas offering equitable entry to billions of individuals and constructing a extra resilient international provide chain.
About The Workforce And The Position
Do you thrive on unimaginable 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 reworked into actual programs that change the longer term. We’re in search of an exceptional Mechanical Engineer to hitch this group and assist design, prototype, and launch the following era 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 wherever within the group and anticipated to ship options that shift what is feasible. Alumni of this crew go on to guide 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 era 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 every thing from cardboard to polished {hardware} headed into buyer fingers
- Collaborating instantly with companions to make our know-how match seamlessly into their world
- Tackling knotty design and evaluation challenges on mission-critical mechanisms and constructions
- Pushing prototypes via lab and flight testing to quickly construct reliability and confidence
You’ll personal the design of main subsystems and even total programs, masking structural elements, mechanisms, and electronics integration. You’ll make architecture-level selections, create designs that may scale, and quickly iterate primarily based on actual check knowledge. You’ll collaborate intently with electrical, software program, civil, NPI, and provide chain groups to show your designs into merchandise deployed within the discipline. Hand calcs, fast builds, and quick iteration will information your course of, and autonomy will probably be your default.
What You’ll Deliver
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 in search of somebody who brings:
A basis in mechanical engineering sturdy sufficient to personal important subsystems or total programs, spanning constructions, mechanisms, and electronics integrationA confirmed historical past of delivery, taking advanced designs via idea, prototyping, validation, and productionThe skill to maneuver seamlessly between tough prototyping and detailed system-level CAD (20–40 elements directly)Consolation with a variety of producing strategies together with welding, sheet metallic, 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 via fast sketches, sharp technical writing, or strategic displays 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
- Fingers-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 be aware 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 depend upon a wide range of components, together with a selected candidate’s expertise, {qualifications}, expertise, working location, and projected impression. The whole compensation bundle for this function can also embrace: fairness compensation; discretionary annual or efficiency bonuses; gross sales incentives; advantages resembling medical, dental and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage; paid day without work; 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 circumstances), sexual orientation, gender identification, gender expression, age, marital standing, army or veteran standing, citizenship, or different traits protected by state, federal or native legislation or our different insurance policies.
We worth variety at Zipline and welcome functions from those that are historically underrepresented in tech. When you just like the sound of this place however aren’t certain in case you are the proper match, please apply!
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