Avionics Electrical Engineer – Entry Level

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office meals

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Cellphone stipend

Wellness stipend

Equity

Job summary

Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that depend on reliable avionics, sensing, communications, power, and ground‑support hardware. You will work on the Avionics team to design, integrate, validate, and release electrical hardware for aircraft and ground systems.

This hands‑on entry‑level role emphasizes quick learning, careful lab work, and growth into deeper subsystem ownership over time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 1–3 years of industry experience.
• Strong fundamentals in analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensing, and communication circuits.
• Hands-on experience with PCBAs, schematic capture, board bring-up, electrical debugging, or hardware validation.
• Ability to read schematics, datasheets, test plans, and basic layout/manufacturing documentation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of avionics and ground‑support PCBAs, including digital, analog, sensing, communications, power, and control circuits.
• Support schematic capture, component selection, interface definition, and board‑level integration with guidance from experienced engineers.
• Help bring up new boards, run bench tests, collect data, and summarize results to support design validation and release decisions.
• Work with PCB layout, mechanical engineering, and firmware teams to close interface, packaging, thermal, and manufacturability issues.
• Support validation testing, troubleshooting, and root‑cause investigations for issues found during bring‑up, qualification, manufacturing, or flight test.
• Contribute to requirements, test procedures, design documentation, release packages, and change‑control records for avionics hardware.
• Participate in design reviews and learn to evaluate tradeoffs across performance, reliability, manufacturability, weight, power, and cost.
• Work with manufacturing, test, quality, and operations teams to support prototype builds, production readiness, and fielded hardware improvements.
• Build good engineering judgment by asking questions early, documenting work clearly, and following problems through to resolution.

Skills

Analog & digital circuits

Mixed-signal design

PCB design

Schematic capture

Board bring-up

Hardware validation

Lab equipment

Team collaboration

On-site collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Python

MATLAB

CAN

UART

SPI

I2C

Job description

Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that depend on reliable avionics, sensing, communications, power, and ground‑support hardware. You will work on the Avionics team to design, integrate, validate, and release electrical hardware for aircraft and ground systems.

This hands‑on entry‑level role emphasizes quick learning, careful lab work, and growth into deeper subsystem ownership over time.