Technical Program Manager, Flight Systems Platform

The Robot Age; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline in South San Francisco is seeking a Technical Program Manager for its Flight Systems Platform. You’ll drive cross‑team delivery across flight software, cloud infra, data/ML, autonomy, maps, validation and operations, ensuring scalable, testable and observable fleet infrastructure.

You’ll coordinate capabilities for deployment, monitoring, telemetry, simulation and test environments, turning high‑priority platform work into clear plans and execution paths in a fast‑moving robotics context.

Qualifications

• Technical program management experience with complex platform or infrastructure programs.
• Ability to work across software, data, ML, validation, and operations groups.
• Comfort operating close to autonomous systems and fleet-scale reliability needs.
• Strong communication, prioritization, and risk-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution for platform programs across flight systems and autonomy-adjacent teams.
• Coordinate capabilities for deployment, monitoring, telemetry, simulation, and test environments.
• Align cloud, on-prem, data, ML, validation, maps, and operations stakeholders.
• Turn top-priority fleet infrastructure work into clear plans and delivery paths.

Skills

Technical program management

Platform/infrastructure programs

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Communication skills

Job description

What the role actually is

Zipline is hiring a technical program manager for its Flight Systems Platform. The role spans flight software, cloud infrastructure, data and ML, autonomy, maps, validation, application software, and operations.

The work is about coordinating platform capabilities that let Zipline build, test, deploy, monitor, maintain, and scale autonomous aircraft and the infrastructure around them.

What you would work on

• Drive execution for platform programs across flight systems and autonomy-adjacent teams
• Coordinate capabilities for deployment, monitoring, telemetry, simulation, and test environments
• Align cloud, on-prem, data, ML, validation, maps, and operations stakeholders
• Turn top-priority fleet infrastructure work into clear plans and delivery paths

What they are asking for

• Technical program management experience with complex platform or infrastructure programs
• Ability to work across software, data, ML, validation, and operations groups
• Comfort operating close to autonomous systems and fleet-scale reliability needs
• Strong communication, prioritization, and risk-management skills

Why this one is worth a look

Zipline's product is not only the aircraft. A large part of the challenge is the platform that keeps an autonomous delivery network testable, observable, and deployable. This role sits in that scaling layer.