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Director of Airspace Policy and Regulatory Affairs

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

Zipline is expanding the world’s largest autonomous delivery network into increasingly complex airspace and markets. The technical systems that make this possible, the industry standards, and regulatory framework must evolve to ensure scaled drone operations can successfully integrate into airspaces around the world.

What they're looking for

  • Experience with production UAS operations, autonomous systems, BVLOS approvals, Part 135 operations, or large-scale logistics and mobility networks
  • Experience developing safety cases, assurance frameworks, operational concepts, or certification evidence for high-reliability systems
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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