Environmental Test Technician - Chamber & Vibration Expert

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline seeks a Structural Testing professional to support environmental chambers and vibration testing within our R&D facilities in the U.S. This role focuses on maintaining 30+ chambers, performing diagnostics, and enabling rapid testing for flight-relevant hardware.

You will work closely with design and reliability teams to keep test systems running and to feed high-quality data back into the design loop.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with mechanical, electrical, or lab test equipment.
• Ability to interpret PLC ladder logic, schematics, and drawings.
• Experience on hardware/software projects with hardware engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Maintain 30+ environmental test chambers used in R&D testing.
• Perform installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs for environmental chambers.
• Schedule preventative maintenance and maximize equipment uptime.
• Assist with delivery drone R&D environmental test setups and training.
• Diagnose mechanical, electrical, and water systems and interpret diagrams.
• Order spare parts, manage inventory, and coordinate contractors.
• Provide on-call support to emergencies on a rotating basis.
• Support vibration lab and dynamic testing, and develop fixtures.
• Instrument assets, collect data, and validate tests against flight data.
• Lead root-cause analysis and write reports with design recommendations.
• Collaborate with Test Technicians and Engineers on site.

Skills

Mechanical troubleshooting

Electrical testing

PLC ladder logic

Data analysis

Tools

DAQ systems

Job description

Zipline seeks a Structural Testing professional to support environmental chambers and vibration testing within our R&D facilities in the U.S. This role focuses on maintaining 30+ chambers, performing diagnostics, and enabling rapid testing for flight-relevant hardware.

You will work closely with design and reliability teams to keep test systems running and to feed high-quality data back into the design loop.