Lead Avionics Technician — Build & Lead High-Impact Hardware

Namely

South San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 117,000 - 175,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Zipline in South San Francisco is seeking a Lead of Avionics Technicians to guide a team responsible for prototype assembly, rework, integration, testing, and troubleshooting of critical avionics hardware. You will hire and develop technicians, plan capacity, set technical standards, and ensure high-quality hardware on schedule.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong technical skills and the ability to balance schedule urgency with safety and quality.

Qualifications

  • Proven success managing and developing technicians who build and test complex electronics, avionics, robotics, or other high-reliability hardware.
  • Experience hiring, onboarding, setting performance expectations, providing feedback, and developing technical career paths.
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of electronics assembly, soldering, crimping, harnessing, rework, inspection, integration, and test.

Responsibilities

  • Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of avionics technicians.
  • Hire technicians with the right mix of electronics assembly, rework, integration, test, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Establish standards for soldering, crimping, harness assembly, inspection, ESD controls, test execution, documentation, and configuration control.
  • Own daily execution and ensure work is completed safely, correctly, and on schedule.
  • Develop training and certification programs that expand technician capability and create consistent workmanship across the team.

Skills

Electronics assembly
Soldering
Crimping
Harnessing
Troubleshooting hardware
Read schematics & BOMs
Team leadership
Capacity planning
Cross-functional communication
On-site collaboration

Tools

Oscilloscopes
Digital multimeters
Power supplies
Logic analyzers

Job description

Zipline in South San Francisco is seeking a Lead of Avionics Technicians to guide a team responsible for prototype assembly, rework, integration, testing, and troubleshooting of critical avionics hardware. You will hire and develop technicians, plan capacity, set technical standards, and ensure high-quality hardware on schedule.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong technical skills and the ability to balance schedule urgency with safety and quality.

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