Mechanical Engineering Manager

3 days ago


South San Francisco, California, United States Zipline Full time
About Zipline

Zipline is a company that uses drones to deliver critical and lifesaving medicine to hospitals serving millions of people in multiple countries. Our mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies.

About the Role

We are hiring a Mechanical Engineering Manager to support the scaling of life-saving operations in the field and execute clean sheet innovative designs for our next generation of autonomous aircraft, known as Platform 2. This is a game-changing hybrid eVTOL that will revolutionize the way life-saving products are delivered around the world.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop lightweight safety critical structures that can be manufactured at high volume with responsibility for all load cases, vehicle structural dynamics, safety factors/margin and material properties.
  • Work closely with Aerodynamics and Guidance Navigation & Controls teams to optimize vehicle configurations and outer mold lines.
  • Design simple, low cost mechanisms for flight control surfaces, propulsion actuation and payload deployment, and demonstrate performance and lifetime reliability through component/subsystem testing.
  • Develop industry-leading safety systems from the ground up for scaled operations in populated areas.
  • Lead vehicle level package/layout to ensure optimum center of gravity location, lowest flight vehicle mass/maximum payload, and maintain dynamic clearances.
Requirements
  • Past success leading engineering teams to rapidly develop first of its kind hardware and deploy into the field with the level of rigor that a high volume or safety critical application requires.
  • Deep technical depth in structures, mechanisms or safety system design. You have made impactful and direct contributions at the architectural level in your career.
  • Enthusiasm for building a team - finding and convincing top talent to join you in your work.
  • Past success managing and developing an excellent team of engineers.
  • Past success bringing products through the full product development life cycle using high volume manufacturing practices.


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