Interconnect Integration Test Engineer

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Zipline

Compensation

$130,000 - $180,000/year

South San Francisco, California, USA

On-site

Posted April 1, 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 YOU AND THE ROLE

Does quickly developing multiple iterations of systems to test novel components through the extreme environments demanded of aerospace applications sound like the way you want to spend your time? Do you love designing tests for cross-functional interfaces with little information, full ownership, and the responsibility to make it happen? At Zipline our work is intended for the field. Patients are counting on it today--there is no time for aiming low or coming up short. If leveraging your talent to drive manufacturing test, design validation, and managing technical risk with a small but dedicated team at your side sounds like your cup of tea, please read on.

Zipline is at the forefront of a logistics revolution: We design, manufacture, and operate our own fleet of autonomous drones to make deliveries of supplies to people in need within minutes, 7 days a week.

We are hiring Harnessing and Interconnect Integration Test Engineers within the Avionics Department. We are a hardware engineering organization with mechanical, electrical, embedded systems, test software, and test engineering all responsible for the design and validation of flight hardware and operations equipment. This role is critical to the integration, reliability, and success of the overall vehicle, pulling together cross-functional stakeholders and performing design validation to ensure our vehicles are ready to fly in commercial operations. We are working on a product that can be deployed in hours, integrate seamlessly with our customers, and operate without human intervention while being deployed worldwide at scale.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a member of the Avionics Test Team you will be responsible for cradle-to-grave design validation and implementation of test systems used to develop and prove concept functionality and key reliability metrics on Zipline systems. You will be directly responsible for all interconnect and harnessing systems, some of which are well defined, and others which will require you to do critical analysis and validation to ensure we are delivering a product that will WOW our customers.

To accomplish this you will need to do the following:

Work closely with the design and reliability teams to generate requirements for product design validation and test assets that accurately capture the intended function of the vehicle while leaving the door open for automation and high volume capacity.
Work closely with integration and production on handling best practices and vehicle-integration.
Explore and define product edge cases based on data you collect from the field, existing logs, component and system test, and in anticipation of future use cases and environments.
Design, build, and maintain critical test assets and equipment for production and design validation.
Manage test development and design der

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