Flight Test Engineering Lead for Autonomous Drones

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ziplineSouth San Francisco (CA)

Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers Aircraft Manufacturing

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About the role

Zipline in South San Francisco is seeking an experienced Flight Test Engineering Lead to define validation strategy for new aircraft capabilities, software releases, hardware changes, and operations. You will design and oversee flight test campaigns, develop automated test infrastructure and data pipelines, and lead cross-functional teams across software, electrical, mechanical, controls, autonomy, cloud, and regulatory domains to deliver release-ready evidence.

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