Camera Technical Lead at Zipline

About Zipline

Zipline is at the forefront of a logistics revolution, using autonomous aircraft to deliver just-in-time, life-saving medical supplies on multiple continents, 7 days a week. We have completed over 200,000 deliveries; it took over 4 years to reach the first 100,000 deliveries. It took 8 months to reach the last 100,000 deliveries. Do you want to be a part of reaching 1 million life-saving deliveries in the next 2 years? 

We believe access to medical care should not depend on your GPS coordinates. In service of our mission to operate at global scale, we’re growing our perception capabilities to expand quickly and safely into new products and locations, with the ultimate goal of delivering essential packages right to your doorstep. We are seeking an experienced camera expert to define, build, and integration cameras and other vision hardware into our drones. 

You will be the focal point for bringing home high quality vision hardware, and working with Perception teams to create a high performance sensor backbone for the computer vision system. This enables a range of core Zipline requirements including safe navigation in the shared airspace, and a magical delivery experience for our customers.

What You'll Do  

• The Camera technical lead will serve as the technical and leadership focal point for all perception cameras at Zipline. 
• Responsible for camera and optical hardware development outcomes for the P2 platform. This includes design, build, test, integration, and mass-production scaling of cameras. 
• Establish best practices and processes that form the building blocks of the next generation camera platform at Zipline. 
• Lead the development and execution of camera and optical engineering, serving as a trusted lead for requirements development, design decisions and execution.
• Manage contract manufacturing partners for build execution, end-of-line screening, issue root-causing, and camera calibration processes.
• Manage and own the internal engineering, design and test tradeoffs between various functional areas (such as optical, mechanical, electrical, ISP, etc) by directly contributing in these areas and leveraging subject matter experts streamlining information and bringing direction and clarity. 
• Drive failure analysis and corrective action implementation and manufacturing sites, including assembly processes, testing, calibration, yield, and post-reliability failures.
• Set directions for laboratory capability and internal test capabilities. 
• Manage and drive the release of engineering drawings and documentation to support design qualification and production builds.

What You'll Bring 

• Masters or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of experience with manufacturing and shipping camera hardware modules at scale with a global supply chain from concept to mass production.
• Strong core camera design principles that have been honed over multiple full product development life cycles.
• Mastery over many disciplines such as optics, image sensors, illumination, image signal processing, electrical and mechanical engineering, test and validation, and system integration.
• Experience with requirement definition, camera characterization, and validation of optical systems.
• Experience with high volume manufacturing tooling, assembly processes, line automation, end-of-line verification, reliability testing, process control, and statistical data trending.
• Experience working with contract engineering and contract manufacturing partners, including overseas.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% to meet with key partners.

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