# Sr/Staff System Test and Validation 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: $165K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/7893905003?gh_jid=7893905003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-sr-staff-system-test-and-validation-engineer/

## About the role

System Test is a ultra-fast-pace team responsible for pathfinding new hardware and delivering on environmental and durability campaigns for zipline’s major hardware categories. The direct team is small and lightweight, and interacts with most departments at Zipline. You will be a technical leader in the small, special-ops team of test engineers and technicians across environmental, durability, and replicated-flight testing.

## What they're looking for

- Develop novel ways of replicating in-flight environments on the ground, including external factors (dust, ingress, icing), and internal vehicle stresses
- Deeply understand the vehicle DFMEA and own the vehicle actuation during system test
- Develop health monitoring and anomaly detection software (Python, Rust) for aircraft and robotic systems, with emphasis on using the vehicle’s on-board telemetry
- Drive the ‘rapid failure finding’ branch of the system test campaigns, a core input to design cycles and achieving maintenance goals
- Build data pipelines and automated analysis tooling to adapt flight-software validators for system tests
- Drive or develop directly the features needed in flight code to enable ‘Test Mode’ functionality

Tags: Hardware

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