On-site Avionics Technician: Precision Hardware & Testing

Telemetry Today LLC; South San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline seeks an Avionics Technician to build, rework, test, and troubleshoot avionics hardware across development and qualification stages. You will partner with engineers to turn early designs into reliable hardware and improve assembly and test processes.

This is a hands-on individual-contributor role without people-management responsibilities, requiring in-person work in South San Francisco with occasional travel to suppliers or deployment sites.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience assembling, testing, reworking, or troubleshooting electronics, avionics, robotics, or similar hardware.
• Strong soldering, crimping, connector, harnessing, and electronics-assembly skills.
• Ability to read electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, mechanical drawings, BOMs, and work instructions.
• Experience using digital oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, electronic loads, and other common lab equipment.
• Ability to troubleshoot systematically, document findings clearly, and recognize when a problem should be escalated.
• Careful workmanship and disciplined adherence to ESD, safety, documentation, and configuration-control requirements.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with engineers and other technicians.

Responsibilities

• Assemble, modify, and rework PCBAs, flex circuits, wiring harnesses, connectors, sensors, antennas, and electromechanical assemblies.
• Perform precision soldering, crimping, cable routing, bonding, fastening, and mechanical integration.
• Execute functional, electrical, environmental, and qualification tests using documented procedures.
• Troubleshoot hardware using schematics, wiring diagrams, test procedures, and lab instrumentation.
• Support prototype builds, engineering experiments, design changes, failure investigations, and production ramp.
• Record build issues, test results, nonconformances, and hardware configuration with clear supporting evidence.
• Provide feedback to engineers on assembly difficulty, workmanship risks, test coverage, and opportunities to improve designs or processes.
• Create and improve work instructions, test procedures, fixtures, and inspection criteria.
• Maintain ESD, workmanship, configuration-control, lab-safety, and equipment-readiness standards.
• Occasionally support work at suppliers, manufacturing facilities, test sites, or deployment locations.

Skills

Soldering

Crimping

Electrical schematics

Diagnostics with test equipment

Documentation

Independent work

Tools

Multimeters

Oscilloscopes

Power supplies

Lab equipment

Job description

Zipline seeks an Avionics Technician to build, rework, test, and troubleshoot avionics hardware across development and qualification stages. You will partner with engineers to turn early designs into reliable hardware and improve assembly and test processes.

This is a hands-on individual-contributor role without people-management responsibilities, requiring in-person work in South San Francisco with occasional travel to suppliers or deployment sites.