Flight-Ready Electrical Supplier Engineer

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a hands-on Engineer to own technical industrialization and supplier performance for PCBAs, cables, harnesses, and related components integral to our Long Range Platform. This role collaborates across Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to transition from prototype to reliable production for an autonomy-focused system.

You will drive qualification criteria, supplier audits, process development, and data-driven improvements, traveling ~30–50% to supplier sites and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Manufacturing, or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on production environment experience.
• Proven supplier industrialization or supplier quality experience for PCBAs, harnesses, and related components.

Responsibilities

• Own technical decisions for PCBAs, cables, harnesses across prototype to production.
• Define part qualification criteria, inspection plans, and acceptance criteria for production release.
• Lead supplier audits, capability gap remediation, and readiness reviews at supplier sites and Zipline sites.
• Develop and validate manufacturing/test processes with suppliers (AOI/ICT/functional test strategies).
• Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions for supplier defects (8D, PFMEA, SPC).
• Define and track supplier performance metrics (ppm, yield, Cp/Cpk, on-time delivery).
• Collaborate with Design Engineering to improve manufacturability and testability (DFM/DFT).
• Manage multiple supplier industrialization projects with risk logs and action cadences.

Skills

Supplier industrialization

Supplier quality

DFM/DFT

Risk management

Technical communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Manufacturing, or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Altium

Job description

Zipline is seeking a hands-on Engineer to own technical industrialization and supplier performance for PCBAs, cables, harnesses, and related components integral to our Long Range Platform. This role collaborates across Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to transition from prototype to reliable production for an autonomy-focused system.

You will drive qualification criteria, supplier audits, process development, and data-driven improvements, traveling ~30–50% to supplier sites and