# Electrical Engineer, Avionics at Zipline

- Company: Zipline
- What the company does: Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
- Company website: https://flyzipline.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $186K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-29
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/8034605003?gh_jid=8034605003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-electrical-engineer-avionics-2/

## About the role

Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that depend on reliable avionics, sensing, communications, power, and ground-support hardware. These systems must work in the real world, at fleet scale, across changing environments, manufacturing variation, field operations, and rapid product evolution. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Contribute to the design and development of avionics and ground-support PCBAs, including digital, analog, sensing, communications, power, and control circuits
- Support schematic capture, component selection, interface definition, and board-level integration with guidance from experienced engineers
- Help bring up new boards, run bench tests, collect data, and summarize results to support design validation and release decisions
- Work with PCB layout, mechanical engineering, and firmware teams to close interface, packaging, thermal, and manufacturability issues
- Support validation testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations for issues found during bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, or flight test
- Contribute to requirements, test procedures, design documentation, release packages, and change-control records for avionics hardware

Tags: Hardware

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