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Concept and Architecture Engineering Contractor

Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA · On-site

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About Zipline

Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.

About the role

We are kicking off a new, highly confidential product development effort on Zipline’s New Products team . This team includes individuals who architected and developed Zipline’s current systems from their earliest stages, taking ambitious ideas through the process of becoming real, operational products. We are now embarking on another clean-sheet development effort that we believe has the potential to have a similar level of impact on the future success of the business .

What they're looking for

  • Work directly with members of the New Products team on ambiguous, open-ended technical problems
  • Generate and evaluate concepts from first principles rather than simply iterating on existing solutions
  • Bring lessons, approaches, and intuition from difficult problems solved in other products and industries
  • Rapidly sketch, prototype, analyze, or otherwise communicate potential solutions
  • Challenge our assumptions and help identify portions of the design space we may have overlooked
  • Use direct exposure to Zipline's systems and operations to develop a grounded understanding of the problem
More about this role

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global...

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