Senior Mechanical Test Engineer, Structures and Mechanisms

Zipline · South San Francisco

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Company
Zipline
Location
South San Francisco
Salary
$145,000 – $225,000
Posted
August 10, 2026

About this job

About You and the Role Zipline designs, builds, tests, and operates autonomous delivery aircraft that need to operate at scale in a huge variety of environments. Testing is central to our ability to validate and deliver hardware and directly affect flight safety, fleet reliability, manufacturability, and the speed at which we scale service to new regions. At Zipline, test engineers have high ownership in the definition of our test campaigns, the development of our test assets and capabilities, and execution across development, validation, and manufacturing end of line tests. As a Hardware Test Engineer on our Platform 2 Aircraft Structures & Mechanisms, you will own mechanical heavy test and validation for flight critical assemblies, mechanism performance, and system-level behaviors.…

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