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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Zipline
- **Location:** South San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Code Coverage, Fault Tolerance, Language Modeling, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-systems-engineer-zipline-8750471

## About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team who has developed, tested, and deployed complex electromechanical systems into safety critical environments. Do you enjoy tackling the most cross-disciplinary parts of a complex program? Do you thrive in solving business-critical problems with little direction, a high degree of ownership, and the freedom to make it happen? At Zipline our work is intended for the field. Patients are counting on it today--there is no time for coming up short. If being an engineering leader on the team driving us to achieve our ambitious goals to scale operations and production, improve reliability, level-up our customer experience, and efficiently mature our processes to support all of this appeals to you, read on., * BS and/or MS in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field

 * 5+ 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
 * Ability to solve complex multidisciplinary problems on schedule independently
 * 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
 * Sufficiently comfortable with energy budgets, flight dynamics, and statistical analysis methods to set the appropriate risk-based thresholds for things like energy margins and environmental limitations
 * Ideally, you'll also have a proven track record setting up systems engineering processes in new projects and/or startup environments such as implementing requirements including processes, definition, decomposition, and verification

## Description

* Serve as a trusted technical expert of deploying high-reliability, autonomous systems into safety-critical environments including owning requirements, metrics, test coverage, and validation processes to ensure we ship safe and robust systems
 * Own system and subsystem requirement definition, decomposition, and traceability
 * Define interfaces and drive cross disciplinary discussions to align on budgets
 * Develop frameworks and facilitate trade studies to optimize for performance, safety, and cost across key system architecture or operations decisions
 * Evaluate hardware and software release standards and test requirements
 * Partner with design engineering, other systems engineers and certification team to prove flight worthiness to regulators


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