Drone Hardware Reliability Engineer - Safest Skies

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline seeks a Mechanical Hardware Reliability Engineer to define and deliver the safety and reliability attributes of our drone-delivery platforms. You will combine failure analysis, hands-on experiments, and statistical modeling to ensure resilience in harsh environments.

You will influence architecture choices, redundancy, fault tolerance, and accelerated tests, providing actionable guidance to design teams and shaping long-term reliability of Zipline’s autonomous systems.

Qualifications

• Experience applying reliability techniques to electromechanical systems.
• Ability to design and interpret accelerated life tests.
• Collaborate with design teams to reduce failure risk.

Responsibilities

• Define safety and reliability attributes for drone-delivery platforms.
• Develop and validate reliability models and verification methods.
• Identify risks early and guide design decisions with data.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Statistical modeling

Electromechanical

Data-driven decisions

Accelerated testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Reliability software

Job description

Zipline seeks a Mechanical Hardware Reliability Engineer to define and deliver the safety and reliability attributes of our drone-delivery platforms. You will combine failure analysis, hands-on experiments, and statistical modeling to ensure resilience in harsh environments.

You will influence architecture choices, redundancy, fault tolerance, and accelerated tests, providing actionable guidance to design teams and shaping long-term reliability of Zipline’s autonomous systems.