Senior Motor Test Engineer - Powertrain

What this role involves

Zipline is seeking a Senior Motor Test Engineer to characterize electric propulsion and actuation hardware for its drone delivery aircraft. The role involves owning performance and reliability test campaigns, conducting electromechanical characterization of BLDC motors, evaluating propulsion systems, and performing root cause analysis on field failures. The engineer will partner with cross-functional teams and develop automated test scripts.

Skills this posting asks for

• bldc motors
• propulsion systems
• actuators
• propeller subassemblies
• electromechanical characterization
• loss characterization
• thermal coefficient extraction
• demagnetization testing
• thrust testing
• efficiency testing
• thermal behavior testing
• servo testing
• motor testing
• positional accuracy
• holding torque
• closed-loop dynamic response
• efficiency maps
• thermal performance
• torque-speed curves
• cogging
• back-emf
• endurance testing
• root cause analysis
• field failure analysis

Requirements

• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

About Zipline Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s larg…