Electrical Supplier Industrialization Engineer - Long Range Platform

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.

You will own technical industrialization and ongoing supplier performance for PCBAs, cable assemblies, wire harnesses, connectors, and related electrical components that go into Zipline’s Long Range Platform. This role sits at the intersection of Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to move electrical hardware from prototype to reliable, repeatable production for an autonomy-focused, aviation-grade product. Your work directly affects flight readiness, field reliability, and program schedules — failures at supplier handoffs create flight delays, grounding risk, and customer-impacting outages.

• Act as the single technical owner for assigned electrical parts and supplier relationships (PCBAs, cables, harnesses, connectors) across prototype → qualification → volume production. Own technical decisions, risk acceptance, and supplier technical performance metrics.

• Define and enforce part-specific qualification criteria, inspection plans, control plans, acceptance criteria, and manufacturing data packages required for production release and flight qualification. Approve technical evidence before production sign-off.

• Drive supplier selection and capability assessments including on-site audits, capability gap remediation, process flow validation, and production-readiness reviews at supplier sites and at Zipline build/test sites.

• Develop and validate manufacturing and test processes with suppliers: process routings, work instructions, AOI/ICT/functional test strategies, and inline/outgoing sampling schemes to meet targeted yield and defect-rate goals.

• Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions for supplier defects using structured methods (8D, PFMEA, SPC). Own containment-to-permanent-fix lifecycle and verify supplier corrective actions at source.

• Define and track measurable supplier performance metrics (ppm, yield, process capability Cp/Cpk, on-time delivery %) and customer-impact KPIs tied to flight readiness and program schedule. Escalate and drive cross-functional remediation when metrics exceed thresholds.

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