Supplier Industrialization Engineer

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 are a highly technical Supplier Industrialization Engineer helping strengthen the mechanical supply chain for Zipline’s autonomous, safety-critical aviation platform.

You will own the technical readiness and ongoing performance of suppliers producing machined parts, plastics, composites, motors, rotating components, and mechanical or electromechanical assemblies. Your work directly affects aircraft reliability, flight readiness, regulatory compliance, program schedule, and our ability to provide customers with consistent, high-uptime delivery operations.

This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and external suppliers. You will translate product requirements into stable manufacturing, inspection, and qualification processes while driving technical risks and supplier issues to closure.

• Own technical supplier readiness for an assigned portfolio of mechanical parts and assemblies from sourcing through qualification, production ramp, and sustaining.

• Assess supplier capability, support selection and onboarding, and lead technical audits, validation builds, and production-readiness reviews.

• Review drawings, GD&T, tolerances, materials, finishes, special processes, and acceptance criteria for manufacturability and inspectability.

• Partner with Design Engineering to incorporate supplier feedback, resolve deviations, and improve drawings and specifications.

• Define risk-based qualification, inspection, control, and acceptance plans, including FAI, PPAP, capability studies, gauge R&R, and process validation.

• Evaluate supplier tooling, fixtures, process flow, work instructions, inspection methods, capacity, and production controls.

• Lead containment, root-cause analysis, and permanent corrective action for supplier quality issues.

• Work with Supply Chain on recovery plans, second sourcing, material or process changes, and mitigations needed to protect schedule and budget.

• Maintain clear status, risks, decisions, owners, and deadlines across