Manager - System Test Engineering and Operations
Zipline · South San Francisco
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- Company
- Zipline
- Location
- South San Francisco
- Salary
- $170,000- $225,000
- Posted
- July 20, 2026
About this job
You will lead a small special-ops team of test engineers and technicians across environmental, durability, and replicated-flight testing. You will own the system-test facility roadmap and campaign portfolio, make tradeoffs on test capability and execution, and partner with hardware and flight-test teams to turn findings into hardware-release and reliability decisions. This team, and the fast discovery of hardware faults, is core to the success of Zipline and the velocity of hardware development and deployment. What You'll Do • Own multi-month system-test campaigns that demonstrate aircraft and major hardware through replicated flight conditions, extreme environments, and targets exceeding 20,000 cycles per aircraft.…
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