About Zipline

Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are.

From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments, and consumers.

The technology is complex but the idea is simple: A teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our robotics and autonomy platforms, we’re decarbonizing delivery, reducing road congestion and emissions, and increasing access to essential goods worldwide.

About the Role

The Ground Systems team at Zipline is in charge of all the infrastructures on the ground supporting our autonomous delivery drones with autonomous docking, battery charging, thermal management, ground communication and preflight checks. This role is central to enable our next generation of drone logistics, solving complex challenges in power distribution, power conversion, battery charging, high performance microprocessor, high-speed network communication and system-level integration. 

As a Compliance Engineer at Zipline, you'll bring deep technical expertise in compliance engineering to help shape Zipline’s global infrastructure as we scale. You will be the technical authority for product safety and certification, working across internal hardware/software teams and certifying bodies such as NRTLs to determine compliance strategy, inform product design, drive validation/testing and execute certification efforts to ensure we can deploy safe and reliable hardware at scale. This is a high trust, high autonomy role for engineers who want to own the safety, compliance and performance of our hardware in the real world. 

What you’ll do 

• Regulatory product architecture and design
• Support the research of new market entry requirements
• Review of product design, specifications, and test plans
• Evaluate materials compatibility with standards, design for safety, electronics schematic and layout review for creepage and clearance, EMC/EMI
• Developing test criteria, methodologies and pass/fail criteria
• Support product registrations and permitting applications
• Debug/RCA non-conformities of products
• Work with Design Engineering and NRTLs to determine product compliance strategy
• Work with NRTLs to achieve product compliance certificates
• Convert problem statements to specification requirements
• Perform product safety and compliance testing, troubleshooting and bug fixing with Zipline cross functional Teams (ME, EE, SW and Test teams)

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, preferred major in Power Electronics or equivalent experience
• More than 4 years’ experience in product regulatory and compliance role
• Experienced in renewable energy products/standards and power electronics
• Understanding of North American Listings, the EU CE requirements, and APAC regulations and Compliance / certification experience per ANSI/CAN/UL/IEEE and IEC/EN/ISO standards
• Demonstrated experience of taking products through the certification process
• Ability to navigate/interpret ambiguity of various product safety standards
• Experience with laboratory test equipment and data acquisition systems, such as the oscilloscopes, power analyzers, data loggers, etc.   
• Knowledge of electrical and safety critical systems such as power electronics, energy storage systems, EV charging and/or residential / industrial appliances
• Hands-on experience with mechanical, electrical, and software engineering components, understanding of how they interact in complex products
• Knowledge of product safety and compliance, construction review process and making testing packages per national (ANSI/UL/CAN) and International (IEC/EN/ISO) product safety standards for the electrical systems. 

Why join Zipline? 

As a Compliance Engineer at Zipline, you won’t be sitting on the sidelines. You’ll be embedded where it matters with real accountability for real-world outcomes. This is a chance to make global impact, influence design at scale and improve the lives of millions through hardware that works every time. 

If you’re excited by owning tough problems end to end in an ambiguous new industry, you belong here.

What else you need to know

This role is an in-person role, based out of our South San Francisco HQ. Must be eligible to work in the US and travel globally as needed. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

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!