Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
About the role
The Long Range Platform brings together aircraft, ground systems, software, manufacturing, and operations in one integrated product. We’re looking for a Mechanical Engineering Manager to set mechanical engineering strategy for the platform and lead the team responsible for mechanical design, from early architecture through production and field use. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience building and developing high-performing mechanical engineering teams, including setting priorities and expectations, coaching engineers, giving direct feedback, and creating clear ownership
- A strong mechanical engineering background, with significant direct technical contributions to complex hardware earlier in your career
- Track record of translating customer needs into product requirements and engineering roadmaps, and carrying electromechanical products from architecture and design through test, production, and field deployment
- Technical depth in mechanical systems such as structures, mechanisms, actuators, motors, sensors, and electromechanical integration
- Strong fundamentals in first-principles analysis, hand calculations, materials, GD&T, tolerance analysis, fatigue, and FEA
- Experience with prototyping, test planning, validation, and using results to guide design decisions
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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