Zipline · 1 week ago
Staff Systems Safety Engineer
South San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $250K/yr
8+ years expZipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move, and they are seeking a Staff Systems Engineer - Flight Reliability to ensure the safe deployment of high-reliability autonomous systems in safety-critical environments. The role involves defining safety requirements, maintaining hazard tracking, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance reliability and safety performance.
DeliveryDronesElectric VehicleHome Health CareLogisticsRoboticsSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
Serve as a trusted technical expert of deploying high-reliability, autonomous systems into safety-critical environments to ensure we ship safe and robust systems
Own top-level safety requirement definition, decomposition, and traceability
Define interfaces and drive cross disciplinary discussions to align on safety and reliability budgets
Create and maintain fault trees, failure modes and effects analyses, and hazard tracking including the tools and processes you and many at the company use in these practices
Partner with engineering teams and operations data to track reliability and safety performance in test and operations
Partner with design engineering, other systems engineers and certification team to prove flight worthiness to regulators
Own public-facing safety reports and set the industry standard for transparency and public trust
Qualification
Required
BS and/or MS in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related fields
8+ years of real-world experience in safety critical electromechanical systems, for example in autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or industrial automation fields including systems/vehicle design experience
A proven track record setting up systems safety processes in new projects and/or startup environments
Demonstrated track record of developing first-principles based safety analysis and decision making in the absence of well-established regulations or industry guidance
The ability to dive in when appropriate to solve problems using tools such as your modeling language/tool of choice, systems modeling, and statistical analysis among others
Knowledge from designing systems that were resilient to harsh climatic environments, mechanical vibration, ESD, and/or high electrical noise
Experience with not only fail-safe fault tolerant modes but also fail-operative modes that enable the system to continue to operate through faults
Leadership skills to grow and develop a world class level of systems safety skills within our systems engineering organization
Preferred
Experience to standing up a safety management system (safety Policy, risk management, safety assurance, safety promotion)
Exposure to safety in both engineering design as well as in operations
Benefits
Equity compensation
Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
Sales incentives
Benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance
Paid time off
Company
Zipline
Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$971MKey Investors
U.S. Department of StateThe Rise FundKatalyst Ventures
2025-11-25Grant· $150M
2023-04-28Series F· $330M
2021-06-30Series E· $250M
Leadership Team
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Co-founder & CEO
Keenan Wyrobek
Founder, CTO and Product Architect
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