Mechanical Design Engineer, Structures & Mechanisms

The role

You will own flight hardware for Platform 2 Aircraft Structures & Mechanisms across the full hardware life cycle. This includes designing, analyzing, testing, and scaling structural and mechanism components.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of structural or mechanical subsystems from requirements to production/operations sustainment
• Produce and defend system-level trade studies, tolerance stacks, load paths, failure modes, and hand-calcs/analysis
• Create CAD assemblies, detailed drawings, GD&T, and manufacturing documentation
• Own design reviews, DFM and first-article criteria
• Lead supplier selection, qualification, and handoff
• Drive DFM feedback and define inspection criteria
• Partner with Systems, Software, Production, Integration & Test, Reliability, and Field Ops
• Translate prototypes into designs for medium-volume production

Required qualifications

• Proven ownership of high performance or low margin mechanical or electromechanical hardware validation
• First principles approach to engineering and a Test-first mindset
• Experience planning and executing environmental, vibration, fatigue, and thermal verification
• Ability to design test fixtures and interpret data
• Deep hands-on experience designing carbon composite structures, injection moulded plastics, metallic structures, and/or servo-actuated mechanisms
• Strong mechanical fundamentals
• Experience working with suppliers when developing hardware and processes
• Demonstrated supplier/DFM experience and track record reducing NPI cycles, scrap, or supplier defects
• Clear written and verbal technical communication

Benefits

• Equity
• Incentives
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They design, build, and operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine and essential goods.