Maintenance and Test Technician (SkillBridge)

Zipline; Esparto (CA); On-site; USD 20,664 - 34,440; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is offering a Skillbridge internship for transitioning service members, located in Esparto, California. As a Maintenance & Test Technician, you will engage in hands-on activities, supporting the maintenance of early-stage aircraft and executing tests with new prototype avionics.

Successful candidates will have experience in mechanical environments and a strong capacity for collaboration with engineers. This internship provides flexible start dates, although housing is not provided.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a machine shop and operating common mechanical equipment.
• Experience working with electronics at different power levels and component sizes.
• Ability to work rotating shifts, including nights and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Build vehicle components and test jigs using instructions.
• Replace vehicle parts following instructions and updating documentation.
• Write detailed reports on test results.

Skills

Machine shop experience

Electronics knowledge

Software/hardware project collaboration

Written and verbal communication

Attention to detail

Interpretation of technical documents

Data organization

Ability to work rotating shifts

Job description

About Zipline

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

About You And The Role

The Zipline Skillbridge program allows transitioning service members to gain work experience through an internship in their last 180 days of service. Zipline provides both instructional and on the job training in a 3‑4 month internship. On the Maintenance & Test Technician team, you will split your time between supporting maintenance of our early stage aircraft and driving the execution of tests primarily in our Esparto test site. You will be working with our latest prototype avionics, powertrain and mechanisms and collaborating with engineers on design iterations as well as supporting field operations to maintain our flight vehicles. You will be responsible for running tests from quick semi‑automated vehicle check‑outs all the way to long reliability and endurance campaigns, all with clearly documented results. And lastly you will build large jigs and structures to support full system vehicle testing and development, think wind cannons, tether mounts, and barriers for safety.

What You’ll Do

• Build up vehicle components and test jigs using instructions ranging in quality / completeness
• Replace vehicle parts following instructions and updating documentation in the process
• Verify that test specifications are correct and can be executed on given resources available.
• Create test setups to match engineering specifications which includes interpretation of test procedures and diagrams, instrumentation, data acquisition, test article diagnostics and front line root causing.
• Write high quality and detailed reports that drive to the root of any issues on a given test using data and a first order analysis.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience working in a machine shop and operating common mechanical equipment
• Experience working with electronics at different power levels and component size
• Experience working on hardware/software projects and collaborating with hardware engineers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience working on hardware/software projects and collaborating with hardware engineers
• Ability to understand and interpret a wide variety of technical documents (electrical specification, mechanical drawings, etc.)
• Ability to organize data in a way that is easy to understand
• Ability to work rotating shifts, including nights and weekends

What Else You Need to Know

Internship start dates are flexible. The location of this Skillbridge internship is Esparto, CA. Housing is not provided.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.