Senior Electrical Engineer - Avionics RF
Senior Electrical Engineer - Avionics RF
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$ 160000 - 200000
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About Zipline
Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people.
About You and The Role
The Avionics team is a group of hardware and software experts responsible for designing robust systems that control our lifesaving drone delivery service in some of the toughest environments on Earth. Our team designs aircraft avionics that must excel in a wide range of harsh realworld climates and electromagnetic interference (EMI) environments. The Avionics system is a vital part of the overall zipline aircraft system architecture where we strive to achieve high performance and reliability while minimizing mass and cost.
You and your team will be responsible for delivering high performance communication and navigation systems that are tightly integrated into the Avionics flight computer. These radio systems are at the core of a new unmanned aerial system that will enable Ziplines impact to expand from 100000 deliveries/year to 100 million across the globe. Ziplines future success depends on the development of avionics systems that are low mass low cost high reliability and produced at high volumes. Rigorous design engineering and validation is required as well as ingenuity in approaches to packaging integration fault tolerance and validation.
We are looking for a leader with a strong foundation in RF system design and an excellent grasp of communication system design RF electronics and antenna design.
What Youll Do
- Join a small but mighty team of RF engineers owning RF communications at Zipline. This includes Zip to Zip Zip to Dock Zip to Droid and Zip to GA Aircraft. Today we use tightly integrated 802.11 cellular ADSB and GNSS radio systems.
- Develop and implement RF engineering processes to ensure high quality on tight deterministic timelines.
- Provide technical leadership in system level design spanning RF link budgets interference analysis and RF MAC layer.
- Define trade revisit and update vehicle RF architecture. Optimize at the integrated vehicle and fleet system levels.
- Design radios amplifiers filters and antennas to meet RF architecture and requirements.
- Develop confirmation tests including functional end of line and system level tests to ensure the RF systems meet all the necessary specifications.
- Coordinate regulatory and industry certification for domestic and international markets.
- Coordinate within the Avionics and Ground Systems teams to implement the RF systems in the aircraft highly integrated flight computer as well as the Zip Dock.
- Coordinate across teams such as GNC Aero and Perception to determine requirements for the RF system performance identify trades and ensure reliable operation for downstream systems.
- Ongoing engineering to successfully sustain the operation of existing avionics systems in our existing fleet of thousands of aircraft.
What Youll Bring
- Demonstrated skill building and leading a team of engineers to achieve ambitious goals with proven success
- 3 years of experience in RF engineering roles with at least one year of direct people management experience.
- Past success developing electronics for critical systems in fields such as automotive aerospace transportation or medical devices.
- Deep design experience in one or more of the following areas: RF system design and analysis antenna design or practical implementation of complex RF systems.
- Strong understanding of communication system fundamentals including linear systems signal processing and communication theory.
- Familiarity with RF design tools such as ADS CST Microwave Office MATLAB or Simulink.
- Enthusiasm for collaborating in a fast paced crossfunctional environment.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical challenges and solutions to fellow engineers and nonengineers alike.
- Must be eligible to work in the US.
- Must be able to work in person at Ziplines South San Francisco office.
What Else You Need to Know
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color ancestry national origin religion or religious creed mental or physical disability medical condition genetic information sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age marital status military or veteran status citizenship or other characteristics protected by state federal or local law or our other policies.
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!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
