Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
About the role
Zipline builds, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that move critical goods where access is difficult. As commercial UAS delivery scales, the standards adopted now will shape how autonomous aircraft are designed, evaluated, integrated into airspace, and operated safely.
What they're looking for
- Set and lead Zipline’s standards strategy across aviation, autonomy, and scaled commercial UAS delivery
- Prioritize standards bodies, committees, working groups, consortia, and coalitions, define objectives, participation level, and accountable internal owners for each
- Represent Zipline in forums such as ASTM, RTCA, and other relevant organizations developing foundational UAS standards
- Convert Zipline’s safety practices, technical capabilities, and operational learnings into standards proposals and evidence-based technical contributions
- Establish governance for approving company positions, technical contributions, disclosures, and standards-related IP risk
- Translate standards and regulatory developments into roadmap, certification, market-entry, and commercial decisions for Engineering, Aviation Regulatory, Legal, and Commercial teams
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.
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