Head of Systems Engineering
Zipline · South San Francisco
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- Company
- Zipline
- Location
- South San Francisco
- Posted
- July 14, 2026
About this job
About You and The Role You will lead the systems engineering team responsible for defining the product capabilities roadmap, decomposing those capabilities into concrete architectures engineering teams can deliver on, and system validation & verification of new capabilities across our current platforms as well as new and novel autonomous aircraft concepts. In 2026, we will scale Platform 2 deliveries per day by 10x while we ramp range by 5x - so, we’ll fly 50x further every day than we do today. We’ll do that while ramping into significantly more complex airspaces and environmental conditions across 5 metros in the US. Then, in 2027 we’ll make a similar 10x+ jump while expanding across the globe.…
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