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Senior Loads and Dynamics Engineer - Aeroelastics and Rotordynamics

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

In this role, you will use your loads and dynamics expertise to drive hardware and product design decisions. You will be responsible for the development and definition of vehicle load cases, including setting and upholding analysis requirements, processes, and standards. You will apply first-principles analyses and lead tight design-test-analysis loops to keep our delivery aircraft safe, light, and scalable.

What they're looking for

  • Own loads and dynamics analysis for Zipline’s aircraft
  • Perform dynamic analyses of aircraft components, including structural modes, random vibration, and forced harmonic vibration
  • Define program loads requirements that support flight performance and vehicle safety
  • Build finite element models for structural and loads analyses
  • Build and run multi-body simulations assessing the dynamics of everything from nominal flight through to parachute deployment
  • Collaborate across hardware, software, and vehicle operations to drive aircraft configuration and performance 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.

We operate at a global...

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