Engineering Test Technician – Ground Systems

About this role

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

The Ground Systems team designs, builds, tests, and maintains the infrastructure that supports Zipline’s autonomous delivery systems. This includes charging and docking equipment, battery handling systems, electrical power distribution, communications hardware, embedded controls, package handling equipment, environmental monitoring systems, and the test infrastructure used to validate them.

As an Engineering Test Technician, you will be a hands-on member of the engineering team responsible for building, testing, troubleshooting, and improving electrical hardware and test systems. You will work closely with Electrical, Mechanical, Embedded Software, Systems, Manufacturing, and Operations teams to support products from early prototypes through validation, qualification, manufacturing, and field deployment.

You enjoy solving practical hardware problems, working directly with electrical and electromechanical systems, and taking ownership of tasks from setup through documentation. You are comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, communicate clearly across disciplines, and look for ways to improve safety, quality, reliability, and repeatability.

What You'll Do

Build and assemble electrical hardware

• Assemble and modify electrical prototypes, wire harnesses, test fixtures, breakout boards, and engineering builds.

• Perform soldering, wire termination, crimping, heat shrinking, connector assembly, and PCB rework to engineering standards.

• Verify wiring, harness integrity, continuity, and build quality before testing.

• Follow build documentation and communicate discrepancies, design concerns, and improvement opportunities to engineering teams.

Create and execute engineering tests

• Create, maintain, and operate electrical and electromechanical test setups based on engineering requirements.

• Configure and use oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, data acquisition systems, environmental chambers, and data logging tools.

• Execute functional, environmental, reliability, qualification, and field-simulation testing.

• Collect, organize, and document test results in a structured and repeatable manner.

Troubleshoot and investigate failures

• Diagnose electrical, mechanical, and system-level failures in prototypes, test fixtures, and deployed hardware.

• Debug wiring issues, communication failures, sensor anomalies, power distribution problems, and data acquisition systems.

• Partner with engineering teams to isolate root causes, support corrective actions, and clearly communicate findings and recommendations. Zipline | Engineering Test Technician – Ground Systems (Electrical Systems)

Support data collection and analysis

• Support automated test execution and data acquisition using engineering tools, scripts, Linux-based systems, sensors, and test equipment.

• Validate and organize test data for engineering review, perform first-order analysis, and identify anomalies or unexpected behavior.

• Generate clear summaries of test results, risks, failures, and recommended next steps.

Improve documentation, processes, and lab operations

• Create and improve test procedures, work instructions, and standard operating procedures.

• Maintain accurate records of builds, tests, failures, and corrective actions.

• Maintain laboratory equipment, fixtures, tooling, and test infrastructure, including calibration and safe operating status.

• Identify and implement opportunities to improve test efficiency, reliability, safety, quality, and repeatability.

• Support inventory management for components, consumables, and test hardware.

What You'll Bring

Minimum qualifications

• 2–5+ years of experience in engineering test, electronics, manufacturing test, new product introduction, or a related hands-on hardware role.

• Hands-on experience building, testing, and troubleshooting electrical hardware systems, prototypes, or test equipment.

• Proficiency with soldering, wire harness fabrication, crimping, connector assembly, wire termination, and PCB rework.

• Experience using oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, data acquisition systems, and other electrical laboratory equipment.

• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, assembly drawings, and test procedures.

• Experience collecting test data, executing technical procedures, and documenting results clear

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