Field Systems Engineer - Ground Systems

About Zipline

Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.   Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people.

About You and The Role  

Do you love finding creative ways to solve time-sensitive, mission-critical technical problems with little direction, a high degree of ownership, and the freedom to make it happen? We might have the perfect role for you in our team. The Field Systems Engineering team sits between the Engineering and Operations organizations at Zipline and is critical to ensuring the equipment we design is usable, maintainable, and lasts as long as possible. Patients are counting on it today--there is little room for error. Our flight and fulfillment operators drive Zipline, and their ability to use our hardware and software systems to serve our customers around the world, seven days a week is paramount to Zipline’s success. As a field systems engineer working on ground systems, your job is to help them do this as easily and efficiently as possible. You will work hand-in-hand with design engineering to develop systems with operability and maintainability in mind. You will be responsible for creating the technical content for documentation to enable operators around the world to use and maintain those systems,  project manage equipment upgrades, and integrate key insights into next-generation development. This requires a deep understanding of Zipline’s technical and operational systems and the ability to easily translate between those two worlds.  If working in a highly cross-functional environment, solving complex problems, and driving continuous improvement appeal to you, read on.

What You'll Do  

• Work alongside design engineering, reliability engineering, manufacturing, and quality engineering to develop systems with supportability in mind
• Develop operating and maintenance procedures to address deficiencies, mitigate safety risks, and support engineering design changes to our flight systems
• Own the technical content of  Zipline’s Ground Systems maintenance manuals and Service Bulletins; recognize potential impacts to flight manuals and coordinate with appropriate process owners
• Monitor in-service feedback and triage emergent technical issues
• Lead root cause, corrective action, and preventative action (RCCA/PA) analyses and development of action plans
• Lead meetings with flight operations and maintenance teams from around the world to discuss the top technical issues and share knowledge and best practices
• Work hand-in-hand with engineering teams on the top technical issues occurring in the field, and provide design inputs for next-generation products from an operability and supportability perspective
• Work collaboratively to set and optimize inspection intervals, life limits, and repair standards within our maintenance and manual softwares
• Become the go-to subject matter expert on troubleshooting and repairing flight systems

What You'll Bring 

• You have a strong background in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering (or a similar field); can learn technical information quickly; and can translate between operational needs and technical solutions in a variety of disciplines
• You have experience in developing maintenance programs and providing electrical, mechanical, SW/data analysis, or network expertise -- these are all highly desirable
• You have experience working with change management and engineering design processes
• You have a record of solving technical problems in a fast-paced environment
• You have experience with developing, validating, and implementing operating and maintenance procedures
• You are motivated by helping people and unblocking operations
• You are able to perform basic data analysis in languages like Python, SQL,