Senior ECAD Library & Engineering Data Engineer

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

Job summary

Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems with a focus on data integrity across ECAD, PLM, and ERP. As Senior ECAD Library & Engineering Data Engineer, you own Zipline's Altium component library and drive standards, automation, and data quality across hardware teams, supply chain, and manufacturing.

You will build and review schematic symbols, footprints, and 3D models, automate validation with Python/SQL, and partner with onsite teams in South San Francisco to keep

Qualifications

• Experience in ECAD library management and engineering data governance.
• Hands-on expertise with Altium Designer and managed Altium environments.
• Strong understanding of IPC‑7351, DFM, and PCB fabrication processes.
• Experience with EBOMs and part-number governance.
• Ability to audit large libraries while preserving revision history.

Responsibilities

• Own the Altium component library's structure, standards, and daily operation.
• Create and release production-quality schematic symbols and footprints.
• Verify models against manufacturer data including pinouts and land patterns.
• Define templates, naming schemes, lifecycle states, and review criteria.
• Audit existing data, resolve duplicates, and preserve traceability.
• Lead new-part request process from intake to release and downstream sync.
• Build automation scripts and dashboards for data validation and PLM/ERP sync.
• Train engineers on component selection, EBOM creation, and lifecycle usage.

Tools

Altium Designer

Altium 365

Python

SQL

APIs

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.

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. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.

About You And The Role Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that rely on accurate engineering product data. Every prototype, production build, supplier order, repair, and field configuration depends on trusted component records, part numbers, ECAD models, and BOM data.

As the Senior ECAD Library & Engineering Data Engineer, you will own Zipline's managed Altium component library and help build the standards, workflows, and automation that keep hardware data accurate across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and service. This is a hands‑on role for someone who can create excellent ECAD library content, improve messy legacy data, and make it easier for engineers to find and reuse approved parts.

What You'll Do

• Own the structure, standards, permissions, and daily operation of Zipline's managed Altium component library.
• Create, review, and release production-quality schematic symbols, PCB footprints, pad stacks, simulation models, and 3D component models.
• Verify component models against manufacturer documentation, including pinout, polarity, package dimensions, land pattern, solder-mask and paste definitions, assembly layers, and 3D alignment.
• Define practical standards for component templates, required parameters, naming, descriptions, revision schemes, lifecycle states, and review criteria.
• Audit and clean up existing library data, resolving duplicates, obsolete records, missing models, inconsistent parameters, and conflicting part numbers without breaking released-design traceability.
• Own the new-part request process from intake through review, internal part-number assignment, library creation, approval, release, and downstream synchronization.
• Review requested parts for duplicates, preferred alternatives, sourcing risk, lifecycle status, compliance requirements, and suitability for the intended design.
• Help define a scalable part-number and classification model for electrical parts, PCBAs, cables, harnesses, mechanical parts, assemblies, and related hardware items.
• Establish clear source-of-truth rules across Altium, PLM, ERP, procurement, manufacturing, and service systems.
• Improve EBOM quality so released BOM lines map cleanly to valid internal part numbers, manufacturer records, lifecycle states, revisions, and owners.
• Build scripts, queries, dashboards, APIs, or validation checks for library cleanup, duplicate detection, metadata quality, BOM comparison, lifecycle updates, and PLM or ERP synchronization.
• Train and support engineers and PCB designers on component selection, part requests, EBOM creation, lifecycle usage, and release expectations.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in ECAD library management, component engineering, engineering data management, hardware configuration management, or a closely related discipline.
• Hands‑on expertise with Altium Designer and a managed Altium environment such as Altium 365 Workspace, Enterprise Server, Concord Pro, NEXUS, or Altium Vault.
• Experience creating and reviewing schematic symbols, PCB footprints, pad stacks, and 3D component models.
• Strong understanding of electronic components, package drawings, manufacturer datasheets, pinouts, land patterns, assembly constraints, and PCB fabrication and assembly processes.
• Practical knowledge of IPC‑7351 land‑pattern principles, relevant industry standards, and DFM requirements.
• Experience with component templates, naming conventions, parameter schemas, revision control, lifecycle states, permissions, and part‑request workflows.
• Experience with EBOMs, item masters, internal and manufacturer part numbers, AML or AVL data, approved alternates, effectivity, and engineering change control.
• Understanding of how ECAD, PLM, ERP, procurement, MBOM, and service systems should work together without creating competing sources of truth.
• Ability to audit and migrate large component libraries while preserving revision history and released‑design traceability.
• Experience using Python, SQL, Altium scripting, APIs, or equivalent tools to automate data validation, migration, and synchronization.
• Strong communication and service instincts: you can protect data quality without becoming a bottleneck to engineering execution.
• Ability to collaborate onsite regularly with hardware, manufacturing, and supply‑chain teams in South San Francisco.

Nice to Have

• Experience with PLM or ERP systems such as Teamcenter or similar platforms.
• Experience in aerospace, automotive, medical‑device, robotics, high‑volume, or other high‑reliability hardware environments.
• Familiarity with RoHS, REACH, conflict minerals, export control, counterfeit prevention, or other component‑compliance data.
• Experience establishing preferred‑part programs, component‑engineering councils, automated library validation, or cross‑company part‑number governance.

What Success Looks Like

• Engineers can quickly find and reuse approved components instead of creating unnecessary duplicates.
• Released EBOMs map cleanly to controlled part records, manufacturer data, revisions, lifecycle states, and ownership.
• Altium, PLM, ERP, procurement, manufacturing, and service records agree on release‑critical part and BOM attributes.
• New‑part requests move through a clear, visible process with agreed service levels.
• Library‑related manufacturing issues, especially incorrect pin mappings, footprints, polarity, package selection, or BOM data, trend toward zero.

What Else You Need To Know

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.