Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
As an Industrial & Operations Engineer on the Manufacturing Engineering team, you will own factory performance and scaling.
You will take a factory-level view of production—connecting demand, labor, equipment, space, material flow, process capability, and capital investment into an integrated production system. Your job is to understand how the factory performs today, identify what will constrain us tomorrow, and design the systems required to scale.
This is not a reporting or planning-only role. You will spend time on the production floor observing how work actually happens, use data to identify constraints and opportunities, and then drive changes to layouts, staffing models, processes, buffers, equipment, and operating strategies.
You will help answer fundamental questions such as: How much can we build? What is preventing us from building more? What will break as demand increases? Where should we add people, equipment, automation, or space? And what should the factory look like at the next order of magnitude of production?
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What Success Looks Like
You will be successful when Zipline can confidently answer, with data:
Ultimately, you will build the production system that allows Zipline’s Manufacturing Engineering organization to move from reacting to factory constraints to anticipating them—and to scale production deliberately, efficiently, and repeatably.
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.
We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
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As set forth in Zipline ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
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