Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer, Avionics

The role

You will own electrical hardware for aircraft and ground systems from architecture and design through production and fleet support. You will design PCBAs and lead root-cause investigations for electrical issues.

What you will do

• Own avionics electrical subsystems from concept through design, validation, release, production ramp, and field support.
• Design and develop PCBAs for aircraft and ground-support hardware.
• Create and review schematics, select components, and guide PCB layout.
• Bring up new boards and execute validation plans.
• Lead root-cause investigations for electrical issues.
• Own corrective-action plans for fleet or production issues.
• Partner with firmware and software teams on hardware-software interfaces.
• Work with mechanical engineering on packaging, weight, and thermal constraints.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, test, quality, and supply-chain teams.
• Mentor other engineers.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience designing and releasing electrical hardware for products that have shipped, flown, operated in the field, or otherwise seen real-world use.
• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals across analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensing, and communication circuits.
• Experience designing PCBAs, including schematic capture, component selection, design reviews, layout guidance, board bring-up, and design verification.
• Ability to debug complex electrical issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, protocol analyzers, and other lab equipment.
• Experience writing and executing test plans for design validation, qualification, production test, or reliability investigations.
• Strong root-cause analysis skills.
• Working knowledge of PCB layout tradeoffs, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, thermal behavior, and manufacturability.
• Ability to collaborate across electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, manufacturing, operations, quality, and supply-chain teams.
• Strong ownership instincts.
• Clear communication and documentation habits.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with avionics, aerospace, drones, robotics, automotive electronics, satellites, or other high-reliability hardware.
• Experience with Altium Designer for schematic capture, PCB layout review, or release package generation.
• Experience designing for weight, power consumption, thermal limits, vibration, shock, EMI/EMC, environmental exposure, or high-volume manufacturing.
• Experience with Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for test automation, data analysis, or lab-equipment control.
• Familiarity with embedded firmware development in C or C++.
• Experience with CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, GNSS, radios, motor-control electronics, battery systems, or sensor interfaces.
• Familiarity with aerospace or environmental test practices such as DO-160, HALT, vibration, thermal cycling, or reliability growth testing.

Benefits

• In office meals
• Subsidized medical, dental and vision insurance
• Monthly cellphone stipend
• Wellness stipend

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system to deliver critical supplies.