Senior Production Test Engineer
ZiplineAbout the role
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 Zipline
Zipline is the world’s largest autonomous delivery system, built to provide fast, reliable access to medicine, food, and other essential goods. We design, build, and operate high-performance logistics systems that serve customers across healthcare, retail, and government on four continents.Our Manufacturing Engineering team builds the production systems that turn complex designs into reliable, scalable hardware. We are looking for engineers who like solving practical problems, moving quickly, and building equipment that works in the real world.
About You and the Role
We are looking for a Senior Production Test Engineer to own the electrical, functional, and automated test equipment used to build and validate Zipline products at scale.
This role is focused on production test systems for the factory floor. You will design, develop, deploy, and sustain testers that verify electrical, electro-mechanical, and mechatronic assemblies before they move downstream or ship to the field. Typical projects may include functional test stands, end-of-line testers, electrical harness testers, sensor and actuator test systems, calibration stations, data acquisition systems, automated fixtures, and production test software.
You will work closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software, Quality, Technicians, and Operations to create test systems that are reliable, fast, easy to use, and capable of scaling to high-volume production. You will own projects from requirements definition through architecture, electrical design, fixture design, software development, vendor build, debug, validation, production release, and ongoing improvement.
What You’ll Do
- Own production test equipment for aircraft, dock, delivery pod, and subassembly builds, from concept through production sustainment.
- Design and deploy electrical testers, functional testers, automated test equipment, calibration stations, and end-of-line test systems.
- Develop tester requirements, test coverage, pass/fail limits, instrumentation strategies, and validation plans in partnership with design and quality teams.
- Build or specify test hardware, including electrical interfaces, harnessing, DAQ systems, sensors, actuators, power supplies, safety circuits, and mechanical fixtures.
- Develop production test software and automation scripts for reliable, repeatable, and high-throughput testing.
- Integrate testers with factory systems where needed, including data logging, traceability, MES workflows, and production dashboards.
- Improve test yield, cycle time, uptime, false-fail rates, debug efficiency, and operator usability.
- Troubleshoot production issues directly on the floor, including electrical failures, tester instability, software bugs, fixture issues, and product/tester correlation gaps.
- Drive test system validation, including GR&R, correlation studies, golden-unit strategies, capability studies, and production readiness.
- Work with vendors and internal teams to fabricate, assemble, debug, install, and qualify production test equipment.
- Create documentation for test procedures, equipment operation, maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, and change control.
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