Senior Mechanical Engineer, Long Range Platform

About Zipline

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced autonomous delivery service, founded to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to 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 including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and commercial products. Our customers include healthcare systems, governments, retailers, and global brands who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide new logistics services at scale.

Our technology goes beyond drones. We deploy integrated logistics infrastructure that strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and enables instant delivery, transforming how essential goods reach people everywhere. 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.

About You and the Role 

You are excited by the challenge of designing complex electromechanical systems from early concept to scaled production and real-world deployment. You enjoy owning hardware deeply: defining requirements, developing architectures, building and iterating prototypes, validating performance, and partnering across disciplines to bring robust designs into production.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Long Range Platform, you will lead the design and development of hardware that must perform reliably in demanding field conditions. You will drive engineering decisions across the full product lifecycle, from first principles analysis and hands-on prototyping through validation, manufacturing ramp, and deployment. This role requires strong technical judgment, high ownership, and a willingness to move fluidly between detailed mechanical design work and broader system-level tradeoffs.

You will work closely with Electrical, Software, Integration, Test, Manufacturing, Operations, and Supply Chain teams to deliver hardware that is not only functional, but manufacturable, inspectable, serviceable, and built to scale.

 

What You’ll Do

• Own critical mechanical systems and assemblies from concept through production and deployment
• Develop elegant, practical design solutions for highly integrated electromechanical hardware
• Translate product and system requirements into robust mechanical architectures, detailed designs, and validation plans
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