Senior Product Integration Engineer, Dropbox

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline designs and operates autonomous delivery systems that move critical goods quickly and safely. This hands-on, individual-contributor role spans hardware, firmware, sensors, and safety analyses across partner sites, including kitchens, drive-throughs, and building layouts.

You will work across real-world constraints to ensure Dropbox-like customer experiences are safe, reliable, and scalable, meeting throughput needs without site-specific engineering heroics.

Job description

Overview

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. 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 builds and operates autonomous delivery systems that move critical goods reliably and safely. Dropbox is our customer-facing package-loading product that integrates mechatronics, sensors, electronics, access control, user interaction, firmware, autonomy interfaces, and environmental protection so untrained users can hand off packages to our drones.

Every partner site is different. Window dimensions, building geometry, awnings, utilities, traffic, pedestrian access, permitting constraints, employee workflows, and delivery volume all affect how Dropbox can be configured and operated. Product behavior must account for these real-world constraints without creating an unmanageable number of hardware variants or site-specific exceptions. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for someone who can move between a partner’s kitchen or drive-through, a building drawing, a system state diagram, a safety analysis, and a firmware design review. Success means Dropbox behaves safely and predictably, meets throughput needs, and can be deployed repeatedly without site-specific engineering heroics.