Electrical Engineering Manager - Ground Systems

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Zipline

South San Francisco, California, USA

On-site

Posted March 27, 2026

Job Description

About Zipline

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 scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.

About the Role

The Ground Systems team at Zipline is in charge of all the infrastructures on the ground supporting our autonomous delivery drones with docking, battery charging, thermal management, ground communication and preflight checks. This role is central to enable our next generation of drone logistics, solving complex challenges in power distribution, power conversion, battery charging, high performance microprocessor, high-speed network communication and system-level integration.

Zipline is seeking an electrical engineering leader to manage a high performing team of electrical hardware design for the Ground Systems team. This technical leader will guide and grow these teams as well as be able to own parts of the design directly as the team scales. You and your teams will be responsible for architecting and developing custom Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs), integrated sensing and RF solutions, and complex industrial systems for our new and existing ground systems hardware and validating the solutions for volume scale. Our ground systems are flight and safety critical. They are installed worldwide, and Zipline will depend on this team to develop novel solutions that enable unprecedented scale and efficiency. Success will depend not only on technical innovation, but also on developing a deep understanding of the needs of our customers.

What you’ll do

Be the electrical engineering technical leader for ground systems design including low voltage electronics and PCBA development, power electronics and RF systems
Build your teams by hiring and coaching world class electrical engineering design and test teams
Drive architectural decisions and manage the requirements of the next-generation of Zipline’s ground system hardware to deliver safe, reliable, high volume and low cost products
Design and validate to relevant North American and international safety and certification standards for scaled deployments

Allocate resources within your team to the electrical engineering projects
Create and manage milestones and deliverables with your team
Maintain visibility across the hardware your team owns, and have the ability to deep dive into projects and challenges
Liaise with other technical leaders both within and outside of the Ground Systems Hardware team (Mechanical Design, Embedded Systems, Validation & Test, Field Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and more)
Leverage your technical leadership experience in hardware design to establish a team culture that biases towards action and tests ideas to achieve radically simple designs
Motivate your team with a clear vision and create ambitious plans for your team’s work while holding a high bar for technical quality
Establish best practices, stand

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