Senior / Staff Electrical Engineer (Avionics)

Join Zipline, a company that designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems. As a Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for the electrical hardware of aircraft and supporting ground systems, from architecture and design to validation, release, production ramp, and fleet support. You will collaborate with various teams to build safe, robust, and manufacturable hardware ready for global operation. This is a hands-on role that requires strong circuit design skills and the ability to debug complex electrical issues.

• Ownership of electrical hardware for aircraft and supporting ground systems from architecture and design through bring-up, validation, release, production ramp, and fleet support.
• Design and development of PCBAs for aircraft and ground-support hardware, including digital, analog, sensing, communications, power, and control circuits.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve yield, reduce downtime, resolve production blockers, and support supplier readiness.
• Ability to debug complex electrical issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, protocol analyzers, and other lab equipment
• Clear communication and documentation habits, especially when decisions affect safety, reliability, production, or fleet operations
• 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
• Working knowledge of PCB layout tradeoffs, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, thermal behavior, and manufacturability
• Experience designing PCBAs, including schematic capture, component selection, design reviews, layout guidance, board bring-up, and design verification
• Ability to collaborate across electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, manufacturing, operations, quality, and supply-chain teams
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong ownership instincts: you can drive a design or issue from unclear starting point to released, verified solution
• Experience writing and executing test plans for design validation, qualification, production test, or reliability investigations
• Strong root-cause analysis skills and the ability to move from ambiguous symptoms to clear technical conclusions and practical corrective actions
• Experience with avionics, aerospace, drones, robotics, automotive electronics, satellites, or other high-reliability hardware
• Familiarity with embedded firmware development in C or C++, especially for board bring-up, diagnostics, or hardware-software integration
• Experience with Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for test automation, data analysis, or lab-equipment control
• 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
• Familiarity with aerospace or environmental test practices such as DO-160, HALT, vibration, thermal cycling, or reliability growth testing
• Experience with CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, GNSS, radios, motor-control electronics, battery systems, or sensor interfaces