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Technical Program Manager, Robotics

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Zipline

Zipline

South San Francisco, California, USA
On-site
Posted March 26, 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  

You’re a force of nature — someone who thrives on bringing order to chaos, driving clarity where there’s ambiguity, and pushing complex, cross-functional efforts across the finish line.
As part of Zipline’s Program Management team, you’ll own execution for a suite of high-impact initiatives across our autonomous flight software stack. Your programs may range from motion planning and controls to perception and navigation, plus the firmware and system integration that make it all work on real vehicles. You’ll partner closely with software leads and engineers, hardware, firmware teams, and flight test operations to sequence work, surface risks early, and keep execution sharp and aligned. You’ll be the connective tissue ensuring the pieces of Zipline’s most ambitious flight software come together on time and to our quality bar.

What You'll Do  

  • Own execution for suite of high priority robotics programs: Define crisp program goals, sequence milestones across planning, controls, navigation, perception, and firmware, and align execution with company objectives.
  • Drive cross-functional delivery: Coordinate with stakeholders across software, firmware, hardware, test ops, and safety to streamline workflows and land integrated flight capabilities.
  • Improve development velocity: Track timelines and blockers, allocate scarce experts/hardware, and actively manage dependencies across stacks.
  • Engage across the full lifecycle: From requirements and architecture reviews through sprint planning, bench/sim bring-up, flight test, and validation.
  • Facilitate strategic decision-making: Bring the right people together to make calls on priorities, tradeoffs (safety/throughput/latency), and technical direction.
  • Communicate program progress: Provide crisp visibility on timelines, risks, and outcomes to leadership and partner teams.

What You'll Bring 

  • Minimum of 6 years of experience in technical program management (or equivalent) leading complex, multi-team software initiatives. Experience as a Software Engineer working on robotic systems is a strong plus!
  • Proven ability to align roadmaps with company priorities and drive execution across multiple teams and dependencies.
  • Excellent communication skills — able to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences and influence decision-making.
  • Demonstrated leadership in identifying/resolving risks, faci
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