Zipline
Technical Program Manager, Flight Systems Platform
$165K–$210K
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Minimum 6+ years of technical program management experience.
- Education
- BS in CS, EE, Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads cross-functional platform programs that enable Zipline to build, validate, deploy, monitor, and scale its autonomous aircraft fleet and supporting infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Own programs from strategy through delivery, setting outcomes, milestones, metrics, dependencies, and risks.
- Lead complex migrations and rollouts across cloud, on-premise, vehicle, dock, tower, and site environments; improve platform reliability and operational performance.
- Establish launch-readiness and program-tracking mechanisms, and drive incident follow-through and corrective actions.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of technical program management experience owning platform programs serving multiple engineering teams, including large migrations, automation, or validation initiatives.
- Technical fluency in several listed areas, such as cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, distributed systems, embedded software, data platforms, or simulation.
- Experience working on a hardware platform, such as robotics, automotive, or aviation.
- Track record of measurable velocity and reliability improvements, plus strong program control and cross-functional decision-making skills.
Nice to have
- Former software or systems engineer.
Pay
$165,000 - $210,000 USD base salary
Tools
CI/CD, distributed systems, embedded software, data platforms, ML infrastructure, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, observability
AI focus
The portfolio includes data and ML pipelines and ML infrastructure; the role drives related cross-functional platform programs.
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