Zipline
Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer, Dropbox
$170K–$255K
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States
About the job
Owns the electrical design and delivery of Dropbox, Zipline’s customer-facing package-loading product, from architecture through production and field operation.
What you'll do
- Develop and validate electrical architecture, electronics, power distribution, sensors, actuators, interfaces, and diagnostics.
- Lead testing, supplier and manufacturing readiness, and investigation and correction of production or field failures.
- Coordinate across engineering and operations teams; at Staff level, set cross-generation architecture and technical direction.
What they ask for
- End-to-end ownership of complex electrical or electromechanical products through validation, production ramp, and field deployment.
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and experience designing systems with motors, actuators, sensors, PCBAs, harnesses, connectors, and embedded controls.
- Experience with electrical architecture, schematic capture, component selection, analysis, and hands-on testing and debugging.
- Experience with verification, demanding environments, suppliers, and manufacturing processes.
Nice to have
- Experience with motor-control electronics, position sensing, safety interlocks, or automated mechanisms.
- Experience with batteries, solar power, functional safety, remote diagnostics, embedded firmware, or high-volume electromechanical products.
Pay
$170,000 – $255,000 USD starting cash range, plus additional equity
Tools
PCBAs, Python, SQL, MATLAB, C/C++
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