Construction Innovation Engineer

About ZiplineZipline stands as the foremost leader in drone delivery services globally, dedicated to ensuring equitable access to essential goods such as food, medicine, and supplies, anytime and anywhere. We engineer, manufacture, and execute the largest autonomous logistics network worldwide, facilitating prompt and dependable delivery of critical resource…

Join AbbVie as an Associate Director of Innovation, where you will play a crucial role in driving the future of our research and development initiatives. This dynamic position allows you to collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement innovative solutions that enhance our product offerings.

Lead Systems Risk & Safety EngineerJoin us in South San Francisco, California, and be part of a transformative mission at Zipline.About ZiplineAre you passionate about making a difference? At Zipline, we aim to revolutionize the logistics of goods movement. Our mission focuses on addressing critical access challenges globally by creating a pioneering delivery system that guarantees equitable service for everyone, anywhere. From facilitating Rwanda's blood delivery to distributing COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana, and offering on-demand deliveries for Walmart, we are redefining how goods are transported for businesses, governments, and individuals. Our innovative technology incorporates robotics and autonomy, significantly reducing carbon emissions, alleviating traffic congestion, and minimizing air pollution, all while ensuring that billions gain equal access and contributing to a robust global supply chain.Your Role and ResponsibilitiesAs the Lead Systems Risk & Safety Engineer, you will spearhead the comprehensive risk and safety strategy for Zipline's aircraft and operations. This senior technical leadership position empowers you to define what constitutes "acceptable safety" for our systems, ensuring we proactively address safety as our operations scale. You will play a vital role in fostering a safety-first culture across engineering, operations, and the entire organization.We prioritize risk and safety targets over mere compliance with standards. This role demands independent thinking, ownership of quantitative risk assessments, and the acumen to navigate complex safety and risk-related decisions.This is not an advisory role; you will be accountable for the quantitative safety case, leading top-down safety analyses, and ensuring that operational learnings are seamlessly integrated into engineering priorities. Our patients, partners, regulators, and the communities we serve depend on our commitment to high safety standards.Key ResponsibilitiesDevelop and own the quantitative safety case, translating high-level safety objectives into specific system requirements and operational constraints.Conduct top-down fault tree analyses for safety-related incidents and hazards, managing budget allocations and tracking margins.Monitor evolving risks to ensure safety analyses remain relevant as designs and operations progress.Facilitate continuous learning from tests and operational experiences to enhance safety measures.

Join Our Vision at AeroVectAt AeroVect, we are pioneering the future of ground handling through autonomy, revolutionizing the daily operations of airlines and ground service providers worldwide. As a Series A startup, we are supported by leading venture capitalists in the fields of aviation and autonomous technologies. Our clientele includes some of the largest airlines and ground handling organizations globally. To explore more about us, visit www.aerovect.com.As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be at the forefront of innovation, tasked with designing, prototyping, and integrating systems to retrofit production vehicles with the necessary hardware for autonomous driving. Your role will be hands-on, transforming advanced technology from concept to reality while ensuring optimal functionality and performance.

Join Spirair Inc., a pioneering company dedicated to advancing medical technologies, as a Senior R&D Engineer. In this role, you will leverage your expertise to drive the development of innovative medical devices, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and enhance patient outcomes.

Role Overview Fly Zipline is hiring a Category Manager focused on Construction, CAPEX, and Tooling at our South San Francisco location. This role shapes procurement strategies, oversees supplier partnerships, and supports construction projects with the right materials and tools. The position also helps guide capital expenditure decisions to improve how our operations run.

At Color Health, we are pioneering a new era in cancer care with the nation’s first Virtual Cancer Clinic, providing unparalleled, physician-led multidisciplinary services across all 50 states. Our innovative, guideline-based methodologies encompass cancer screening, risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis, treatment support, and survivorship. Beyond personalized medical care, we also offer services in cancer genetics risk assessment, nutrition, mental health support, and at-home cancer screening diagnostics. Leveraging technology-driven, patient-centric solutions, Color is reshaping how employers, unions, health plans, and governments tackle cancer. Our mission is to bridge critical gaps in cancer care, enhance patient outcomes, and support individuals compassionately throughout their healthcare journeys.Join Color and embark on the most impactful journey of your career. Even if you feel you're not fully qualified, if you are eager to take on this challenge, we encourage you to apply!About The RoleAs a Senior Engineering Manager on our Care Operations team, you will be at the forefront of how Color delivers scalable care. You will lead a dedicated team, shaping the systems that empower our clinicians and care teams — ensuring high-quality and accessible healthcare for millions. This role offers high ownership and the opportunity to define technical direction, drive execution through complex workflows, and enhance our care delivery platform within a dynamic startup environment. Your contributions will directly impact the speed at which we launch new programs, leverage AI in our operations, and elevate patient experiences. If you are passionate about building meaningful systems in a high-autonomy setting, this opportunity is tailored for you!

Join AbbVie as the Director of Discovery AI Partnerships, where you will spearhead innovative collaborations aimed at harnessing artificial intelligence to transform the landscape of healthcare. In this pivotal role, you will be at the forefront of developing strategic partnerships with external research organizations and technology firms. Your expertise in AI integration will be crucial in advancing our mission to improve patient outcomes.

Kardigan is dedicated to advancing heart health through innovative science. The company’s mission centers on making cardiovascular disease preventable and curable, aiming to reduce its impact as a leading cause of death worldwide. With a focus on developing multiple targeted treatments, Kardigan works to expand access to effective therapies for people living with cardiovascular conditions. The founding team, Tassos Gianakakos, Jay Edelberg, M.D., Ph.D., and Bob McDowell, Ph.D., previously led MyoKardia, where they played a key role in the discovery and development of mavacamten, the first cardiac myosin inhibitor. Their leadership contributed to MyoKardia’s acquisition by Bristol Myers Squibb in 2020. Kardigan’s research platform and late-stage development pipeline reflect a commitment to scientific progress and high standards in patient care. Every project is shaped by the company’s core values, which include putting patients and families first, valuing authenticity, and fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace. Curiosity, adaptability, and teamwork are encouraged, and the company supports thoughtful risk-taking to drive breakthroughs in cardiovascular health. These guiding principles inform all efforts at Kardigan, as the team works to create lasting improvements for patients and their families.

Join our dynamic team as a Scientist I and contribute to groundbreaking research that drives innovation in the field. You will be an integral part of our scientific community, focusing on developing solutions that enhance our understanding of complex biological systems.

Join Veracyte, a pioneering diagnostics company that is transforming patient care through innovative genomic testing. As a Research Scientist I in our Sustaining team, you will play a crucial role in optimizing our existing assays and ensuring our products maintain the highest standards of quality and performance. This position offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment where scientific discovery meets practical application.

About ZiplineAre you ready to make a difference? At Zipline, we harness the power of drones to deliver essential and life-saving medicines to hospitals around the globe, impacting millions of lives. Our mission is to ensure that every individual on Earth has immediate access to crucial medical supplies. Join us at Zipline and be part of a transformative journey that can reach billions.About the RoleAs a Quality Manufacturing Engineer within our manufacturing quality team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that each vehicle produced meets Zipline’s stringent performance criteria. Your responsibilities will include managing inspection findings and non-conformances, leading investigations into root causes, and implementing corrective measures to enhance yield and production efficiency. You will outline and document inspection protocols, rework procedures, and provide feedback to suppliers, collaborating with cross-functional teams to address quality issues effectively.

About ZiplineAre you ready to make a significant impact? Zipline is on a transformative mission to revolutionize logistics and delivery systems across the globe. We are dedicated to addressing the most pressing access challenges by developing the first instant delivery and logistics network that serves everyone equally, no matter where they are. From supporting Rwanda's national blood delivery system and Ghana's COVID-19 vaccine distribution to facilitating on-demand home deliveries for Walmart, we are changing how goods are transported for businesses, governments, and consumers alike.The technology we utilize is intricate, yet our goal is straightforward: to create a teleportation service that delivers essentials precisely when needed. Our robotics and autonomous systems are designed to reduce carbon emissions, alleviate road congestion, and minimize fossil fuel dependency while ensuring equitable access for billions of people and strengthening the global supply chain. Join Zipline and contribute to our vision of establishing a fair and robust global supply chain for billions worldwide.About You and The RoleAs a key member of Zipline’s Flight Controls team, you will play a pivotal role in modeling, developing, and testing critical flight software systems that empower our vehicles to deliver autonomously. Our team excels at innovating solutions that allow our delivery platforms to operate seamlessly in diverse and increasingly challenging environments, ensuring equitable service to all. You will leverage a variety of analytical techniques to assess system performance and understand how design decisions impact capabilities and requirements. Collaboration across teams will be essential as you drive enhancements to our products using data derived from flight testing and our extensive fleet of customer aircraft. By engaging closely with our customers, you will gather insights to identify improvements and prioritize our next growth phases. Your success directly influences the operational effectiveness of our logistics network.

About Zipline Are you ready to make a significant impact? Zipline is committed to revolutionizing the logistics landscape. Our mission is to tackle the world's most pressing access challenges by creating, manufacturing, and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that caters to all individuals, regardless of their location. From powering Rwanda's national blood delivery network and facilitating Ghana's COVID-19 vaccine distribution to enabling Walmart's on-demand home delivery, we are reshaping the movement of goods for businesses, governments, and consumers alike. Our technology may be intricate, but our vision is straightforward: a teleportation service that delivers essential items promptly. Through our innovative use of robotics and autonomous systems, we are not only decarbonizing deliveries but also alleviating road congestion, reducing fossil fuel usage, and combating air pollution, all while ensuring equitable access for billions and strengthening the global supply chain. About You and The Role Are you excited by the challenge of developing large, integrated electro-mechanical systems—from initial engineering builds to full-scale production and worldwide deployment? Do you thrive on tackling tasks that others deem too difficult or impossible? Are you the engineer everyone turns to for insights on building and scaling unprecedented projects? At Zipline, our work has real-world implications. Families and patients depend on us daily, and there is no margin for error. If you are passionate about leveraging your engineering skills to devise efficient and innovative manufacturing solutions, we encourage you to continue reading. We are in search of a highly skilled and proactive Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will be tasked with designing and scaling multiple in-house final assembly lines for our aircraft, zips, docks, and various essential feeder sub-assemblies. You will ensure these lines meet escalating demand—from tens of units weekly to hundreds over the next three years—while continuously reducing costs and enhancing product quality. If you excel in fast-paced environments, enjoy managing multiple new developments simultaneously, and can swiftly align teams towards solutions, we would love to connect with you.

Lightship is hiring a Senior Engineering Technician at its South San Francisco facility. This position plays a key part in supporting the design, development, and testing of engineering projects, working closely with engineers to guide ideas from concept to completion. A hands-on approach and technical know-how are essential for keeping projects on schedule and meeting goals. Key responsibilities Support engineering design, development, and testing tasks Collaborate with engineers to address technical challenges as they arise Contribute to maintaining quality and performance standards throughout project phases What we look for Proactive approach and strong problem-solving abilities Genuine enthusiasm for engineering and technology Background in supporting engineering projects from initial stages through completion

ABOUT ZIPLINEAre you ready to make a difference? At Zipline, we are revolutionizing the logistics of goods transportation. Our mission is to address the world's most pressing access challenges by creating, manufacturing, and operating an instant delivery system that serves all people, regardless of their location. From supporting Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and distributing COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana to facilitating on-demand delivery for Walmart and enabling healthcare providers to reach patients' homes across the U.S., we are reshaping logistics for businesses, governments, and consumers alike. Our technology blends robotics and autonomy to decarbonize delivery systems, alleviate traffic congestion, reduce fossil fuel dependency, and ensure equitable access for billions while reinforcing a more resilient global supply chain.Join us at Zipline and contribute to our vision of building a fair and robust global supply chain that benefits everyone.ABOUT YOU AND THE ROLEThe Avionics team comprises skilled hardware, software, and testing experts dedicated to designing resilient systems that power our life-saving drone delivery operations in some of the most challenging environments worldwide. We are tasked with creating aircraft avionics capable of performing optimally in diverse and harsh climatic and electromagnetic interference (EMI) conditions. As a crucial component of the overall Zipline aircraft system architecture, we prioritize high performance and reliability while minimizing weight and costs.In this role, you will collaborate with our team to deliver high-performance flight computers and tightly integrated communication and navigation systems. These avionics systems are central to our new unmanned aerial system, which aims to scale Zipline’s deliveries from 100,000 to 100 million per year globally. The success of Zipline hinges on developing avionics systems that are lightweight, cost-effective, reliable, and capable of high-volume production. This position requires rigorous engineering design and validation efforts, alongside innovative approaches to packaging, integration, fault tolerance, and validation. We seek a test engineer with a solid background in electrical engineering principles and relevant experience in manufacturing testing, design validation, system performance characterization, and certification.

Join FlyZipline as a Senior Staff RF Test Engineer and play a pivotal role in revolutionizing the logistics industry through cutting-edge drone technology. In this position, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and executing tests to validate RF components, ensuring our systems meet the highest standards of reliability and performance.This role requires a strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence in engineering practices. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our product offerings and contribute to our mission of delivering essential medical supplies swiftly and efficiently.

ROLE EXPECTATIONS Zipline is seeking innovative software engineers to create the essential tools and infrastructure that support our systems validation and flight testing departments. This dynamic team is responsible for developing accurate, efficient, and scalable software solutions to validate both aircraft and ground systems across various levels. Our projects range from integrating real avionics, sensors, actuators, and radios with high-fidelity simulated environments in bench-top Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) configurations to building applications that plan, orchestrate, and assess thousands of automated and non-standard real-world flight tests on a daily basis. Your contributions will significantly enhance the speed, confidence, and quality of hardware and software development at Zipline. In this position, you will gain in-depth knowledge of Zipline’s comprehensive logistics system and collaborate closely with cross-functional partners who depend on your tools to deliver reliable, flight-ready software. Most critically, the systems you develop will act as the final safeguard before software and hardware are deployed globally for crucial real-world deliveries.

About Us: Calico Life Sciences LLC, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is at the forefront of research and development, focusing on understanding the biology of human aging through advanced technologies and innovative model systems. Our mission is to leverage this knowledge to create interventions that promote longer, healthier lives. With cutting-edge technology labs, a commitment to curiosity-driven scientific discovery, and a dynamic drug-development pipeline in collaboration with academic and industry partners, Calico is a vibrant environment for catalyzing medical breakthroughs. Role Overview: We are on the lookout for a Senior Data Engineer to become a key member of our collaborative Engineering team and lead the establishment of the Drug Discovery Data Engineering group. The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic team player, meticulous, highly organized, and adept at navigating intricate data, software, and scientific challenges. In this role, you will serve as a crucial technical liaison among our Medicinal Chemistry, Automation, Machine Learning, Assay Technology, and Protein Sciences teams. You will oversee projects from initial requirements through to production deployment, engineering high-performance data systems that integrate with our molecular databases (CDD Vault), inventory systems (Mosaic), electronic lab notebooks (Benchling), our internal data warehouse (BigQuery), and our proprietary AI platform. As the inaugural hire for this team, your contributions will be instrumental in shaping data flows, developing web applications for stakeholder engagement, and establishing a progressive engineering culture in this vital growth sector. Key Responsibilities: Project Leadership: Collaborate with scientists across Assay Technology, Medicinal Chemistry, and Protein Sciences to gather requirements, design solutions, and implement production-grade software that enhances data movement and analysis. System Integration: Create and deploy effective integrations between internal pipelines and third-party platforms, particularly involving the CDD molecular database, Mosaic inventory systems, and Benchling ELN. Data Flow Optimization: Develop and refine data flows organization-wide (e.g., facilitating seamless data transitions from Machine Learning to Protein Sciences to Assay Technologies) to expedite the drug discovery feedback loop. Full-Stack Development: Build data systems and internal web applications (utilizing React and Python) to empower stakeholders to review, visualize, and communicate complex scientific data effectively. Mentorship & Leadership: Act as a senior technical advisor within the broader Engineering team.

Electrical Engineer South San Francisco, CA | Ground Systems | Full Time Join Zipline in Transforming Logistics!Are you ready to make a difference? At Zipline, we are on a revolutionary mission to redefine how goods are delivered. Our goal is to tackle the most pressing global access challenges by creating a cutting-edge delivery and logistics system that serves humanity equally, regardless of location. From powering Rwanda's blood delivery network and distributing COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana to facilitating on-demand home delivery for Walmart, we are changing the game for businesses, governments, and consumers alike. Our innovative technology is not just complex; it embodies a simple yet powerful idea: a teleportation service that delivers exactly what you need, when you need it. Through our advanced robotics and autonomous platforms, we are committed to reducing carbon emissions, alleviating road congestion, and enhancing access to essential goods worldwide. Your Role as an Electrical EngineerAs a key member of our Ground Systems team, you will develop critical components for aircraft landing, charging, loading, and launching. We are seeking an Electrical Engineer with a solid foundation in electrical engineering design and a deep understanding of electronics development, processes, and tools. Your responsibilities will involve designing hardware for our next-generation ground systems, focusing on areas such as microprocessors, high-speed communications, GNSS, brushless DC motor drives, power supplies, battery chargers, and more. Your work will be pivotal in enabling autonomous takeoff and landing for our next-generation aircraft and facilitating seamless integration with shipper sites, allowing Zipline's deliveries to scale from 100,000 per year to 100 million worldwide. Collaborate with top-tier engineers across various disciplines and experience levels in an environment that promotes personal development, continuous learning, and mentorship. Our Ground Systems team faces unique challenges in designing robust systems to provide life-saving services in some of the harshest environments on the planet. From the outset of every project, you'll play a vital role in system architecture, focusing on performance, reliability, and fault tolerance while balancing mass and cost. This includes designing UL-compliant systems to ensure the safety of our employees and customers.