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Production Equipment & Tooling Engineer

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Your applicationOpen nowProduction Equipment & Tooling EngineerZipline · South San Francisco, California, USA

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12.8% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Zipline postings stay open a median of 56 days.

Share of postings closed within
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  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.4%60 days
This job: posted 17 hours ago

Zipline median: 56 days open

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About Zipline

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.

About You & the Role

Zipline’s Manufacturing Engineering team delivers the production systems that turn autonomous delivery aircraft and their subsystems into reliable, repeatable products at scale. As a Production Equipment & Tooling Engineer based in South San Francisco, you will own design and deployment of fixtures, workstations, mechanical tooling, and end-of-line test equipment that directly enable aircraft assembly, battery integration, dock components, and flight‑critical subsystems. Your work determines throughput, first-pass yield, assembly cycle time, and maintenance uptime for production lines that supply field operations and live delivery fleets—mistakes affect fleet readiness and safety-critical performance.

This opening sits within our manufacturing engineering team; the exact focus will reflect your strengths and the team’s needs.

What You’ll Do

  • Own equipment requirements, acceptance criteria, production handoff, and sustainment so tooling remains safe, available, and maintainable through production ramps.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of production equipment and tooling projects for aircraft and electro-mechanical subsystems: requirements, CAD (Siemens NX), detailed drawings, vendor fabrication oversight, build, commissioning, and production release.
  • Deliver measurable improvements: increase tooling availability above 95%, reduce manual assembly cycle time by 20–40% per station, and improve first-pass yield (FPY) on targeted assemblies by at least 10% within the first 6–12 months of deployment.
  • Design and install alignment fixtures, press and torque tooling, ergonomic operator stations, poka‑yoke devices, handling/transport fixtures, and automated end-of-line test rigs tied to build and test specs for aircraft, battery packs, and docks.
  • Perform on-line debugging and rapid root‑cause analysis during launches and ramp phases; be prepared to run weekend or evening commissioning efforts during critical releases.
  • Develop and apply tooling design standards, GD&T practices, tolerance stacks, and material/process selections that meet safety and maintainability requirements for autonomous hardware.
  • Coordinate cross-functionally with Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Test Engineering, and Field Operations to align tooling scope, test requirements, and production schedules.
  • Manage relationships with fabricators and vendors: write technical RFQs, evaluate proposals, verify vendor QC, and perform acceptance testing at build and after installation.

What You’ll Bring

  • 2+ years designing production equipment, fixtures, or custom automation in a high-volume or fast-ramping manufacturing environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  • Demonstrated mastery of GD&T, tolerance analysis, mechanism design, material selection, and failure‑mode thinking for assembly tooling.
  • Proficiency in 3D CAD; Siemens NX preferred (SolidWorks/Creo experience acceptable with strong NX learning intent).
  • Hands-on experience commissioning equipment on the factory floor: supporting fabrication, build, debug, test, and operator training; comfortable spending most of your week on-site.
  • Practical knowledge of pneumatics, actuators, sensors, linear motion, machine guarding, and industrial electrical interfaces used in tooling and small automation.
  • Track record delivering quantitative outcomes (cycle time, uptime, FPY, cost per unit) and making trade-offs between throughput, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Ability to coordinate vendor builds and perform acceptance testing to technical drawings and QA criteria.
  • Logistics: role is site-based at Coop, Zipline’s South San Francisco manufacturing site; expect regular on-site presence during standard manufacturing shifts, availability for occasional off-hours commissioning, and up to 15% travel to vendor or field sites.
  • Must-have traits: high ownership of safety and reliability, decisive technical judgment under schedule pressure, comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration, and willingness to escalate and resolve issues that affect fleet readiness.

Nice to Have

  • 5–7 years of relevant experience preferred.
  • Experience with aerospace, drones, medical devices, or safety-critical electro-mechanical products is strongly preferred.

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is $105,000-150,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. We are always open to negotiation. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Zipline ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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