Senior Flight Test Engineer
Zipline , South San Francisco, California +1
What you will do
- Develop and lead end-to-end flight test campaigns validating aircraft performance, delivery and pick up operations, docking systems, and fleet orchestration.
- Define system-level objectives, success criteria, and test plans with mechanical, electrical, software, systems and operations partners.
- Assess hardware and software readiness, evaluate risk posture, and make flight-readiness decisions before test execution.
- Analyze flight data to identify anomalies, trends, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Produce deployment-readiness recommendations and prioritized corrective actions from campaign evidence.
- Build and integrate automated test tooling that improves test precision, insight, capacity, and velocity.