# Senior/Staff 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: Senior
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/7931408003?gh_jid=7931408003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-senior-staff-electrical-engineer-avionics/

## 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

- Own avionics electrical subsystems from concept through design, validation, release, production ramp, and field support
- Design and develop PCBAs for aircraft and ground-support hardware, including digital, analog, sensing, communications, power, and control circuits
- Create and review schematics, select components, define interfaces, guide PCB layout, and ensure designs meet electrical, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and operational requirements
- Bring up new boards, write and execute validation plans, analyze test data, and drive design changes based on measured performance
- Lead root-cause investigations for electrical issues found during bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, flight test, or field operation
- Own corrective-action plans for fleet or production issues, including containment, investigation, design revision, release, and verification

Tags: Hardware

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-senior-staff-electrical-engineer-avionics/