Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
About the role
As a Supplier Quality Engineer at Zipline, you will own quality performance for assigned suppliers and purchased components, helping ensure that parts meet engineering requirements and support reliable manufacturing and fleet operations. You will work directly with suppliers and partner with Supplier Industrialization Engineering, Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality to prevent defects, resolve supplier issues, and strengthen manufacturing processes. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Own supplier quality performance: Manage quality for assigned suppliers, establish clear expectations, monitor performance, and drive improvement plans based on risk, defect trends, and production impact
- Strengthen supplier process controls: Review process flows, process failure mode and effects analyses (PFMEAs), control plans, work instructions, and inspection methods
- Confirm that controls address critical requirements and are implemented effectively on the production floor
- Improve incoming quality: Work with Incoming Quality Control and Engineering to define inspection criteria and recommend inspection strategies based on part criticality, supplier capability, and demonstrated performance
- Drive supplier development: Conduct supplier process audits and hands-on improvement activities to reduce defects, scrap, rework, and recurring production disruptions
- Connect production and field learnings: Partner with Manufacturing and Reliability teams to investigate supplier-related failures and incorporate lessons learned into supplier controls and qualification requirements
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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