Senior Systems Engineer

Zipline is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to develop, test, and deploy complex electromechanical systems in safety-critical environments. This role involves owning system requirements, metrics, test coverage, and validation processes to ensure the delivery of safe and robust autonomous logistics systems. You will define interfaces, drive cross-disciplinary discussions, and partner with design and certification teams to prove flight worthiness.

• Serve as technical expert for high-reliability, autonomous systems in safety-critical environments
• Own system and subsystem requirement definition, decomposition, and traceability
• Define interfaces and drive cross-disciplinary discussions
• Develop frameworks and facilitate trade studies for system architecture decisions
• Evaluate hardware and software release standards and test requirements
• Partner with design, systems engineers, and certification teams for regulatory approval