# Senior Manufacturing Engineer 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: Senior
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-29
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/8017275003?gh_jid=8017275003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-senior-manufacturing-engineer/

## About the role

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will turn complex electro-mechanical products into safe, reliable, repeatable production lines for Zipline’s aircraft, docks, and logistics hardware. You will own assigned final assembly and feeder sub-assembly lines from process definition and tooling through validation, production release, and sustainment. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Own end-to-end industrialization of assigned assembly lines and feeder sub-assemblies, from concept, tooling, and pilot builds through production release and sustainment
- Design, procure, fabricate, install, and commission fixtures, gauges, tooling, workstations, and ergonomic operator flows at Zipline manufacturing sites
- Define, execute, and sign off on process validation, including PFMEAs, control plans, capability studies (Cp/Cpk), first-article inspections, pilot builds, and production-release criteria
- Own first-pass yield, throughput, takt, mean time between failures, downtime, and cost-of-poor-quality metrics, drive improvements against quarterly targets
- Lead DFM reviews and tradeoffs with product design to reduce assembly time, simplify inspection, and lower cost per unit while meeting aerospace safety and field-reliability requirements
- Investigate escalated production issues and escapes, validate root causes, implement corrective and preventive actions, and update control plans to prevent recurrence

Tags: Hardware

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