Lead Powertrain Technician — Battery & Electronics

Namely; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 58,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Full-time benefits

Job summary

Zipline is hiring an Engineering Technician in the United States, focusing on Battery & Power Electronics. You will build, test, and validate prototypes and laboratory systems for power electronics products, collaborating with multiple engineering teams to accelerate development.

The role covers hardware assembly, testing, and continuous improvement, with starting hourly range $42–$52, overtime eligibility, stock options, and full-time benefits. Zipline is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Experience building, assembling, troubleshooting, or supporting electromechanical systems appropriate to your career level.
• Strong mechanical aptitude with experience using hand tools, precision measurement equipment, and fabrication equipment.
• Experience reading mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, assembly documentation, and engineering work instructions.
• Experience with wiring harness fabrication, crimping, soldering, cable routing, connector assembly, and electrical integration.
• Familiarity with laboratory instrumentation including oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, DAQ systems, battery cyclers, environmental chambers, and vibration equipment.
• Experience supporting engineering validation, prototype development, manufacturing, or production testing is preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to independently diagnose and resolve mechanical and electrical issues.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and commitment to safe laboratory practices.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Prototype Development: Build, assemble, modify, and maintain engineering prototypes, battery systems, power electronics assemblies, wiring harnesses, and electromechanical hardware.
• Prototype Development: Assemble and commission custom test equipment, fixtures, instrumentation, and laboratory infrastructure using engineering drawings, electrical schematics, and work instructions.
• Prototype Development: Perform wiring, soldering, crimping, cable fabrication, connector assembly, and mechanical assembly using high-quality engineering and manufacturing practices.
• Prototype Development: Fabricate and modify test fixtures, mechanical components, wiring harnesses, and laboratory tooling using standard shop equipment and rapid prototyping methods.
• Prototype Development: Support engineering changes, prototype iterations, and hardware bring‑up throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Validation & Laboratory Operations: Set up, operate, and maintain laboratory equipment including power supplies, electronic loads, battery cyclers, oscilloscopes, DAQ systems, environmental chambers, vibration equipment, and thermal instrumentation.
• Validation & Laboratory Operations: Execute engineering validation activities including battery characterization, environmental, vibration, thermal, fatigue, abuse, electrical performance, and reliability testing.
• Validation & Laboratory Operations: Collect, document, and organize engineering data while ensuring repeatability, traceability, and measurement quality.
• Validation & Laboratory Operations: Maintain laboratory organization, calibration records, tooling, consumables, and equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient engineering operations.
• Validation & Laboratory Operations: Support commissioning of new laboratory equipment and validation infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement: Troubleshoot prototype hardware, laboratory equipment, and test systems, partnering with engineers to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement improvements to laboratory workflows, assembly methods, fixture designs, tooling, and test efficiency.
• Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement: Develop and improve work instructions, assembly documentation, laboratory procedures, and standard operating practices.
• Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement: Partner closely with Mechanical, Electrical, Test, Manufacturing, Reliability, and Systems Engineers to rapidly iterate hardware and improve engineering execution.
• Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement: As experience grows, independently own prototype builds, laboratory equipment, validation activities, and portions of engineering programs while mentoring teammates and driving improvements to laboratory capability and engineering processes.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Reading drawings

Troubleshooting

Communication

Collaboration

Documentation

Safety practices

Tools

Hand tools

Fabrication equipment

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

DAQ systems

Power supplies

Environmental chambers

Job description

Zipline is hiring an Engineering Technician in the United States, focusing on Battery & Power Electronics. You will build, test, and validate prototypes and laboratory systems for power electronics products, collaborating with multiple engineering teams to accelerate development.

The role covers hardware assembly, testing, and continuous improvement, with starting hourly range $42–$52, overtime eligibility, stock options, and full-time benefits. Zipline is an equal opportunity employer.