Industrial & Operations Engineer
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
Posted about a month ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 30 days Zipline 's roles stay open a median of 42 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 51% of Zipline 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Zipline
- low 0 stale, 6 reposted of 342 open
- Hiring momentum
- 454 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Zipline 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Zipline .
About this role
As an Industrial & Operations Engineer at Zipline, you will focus on enhancing factory performance and scalability by analyzing and optimizing production systems. Your role involves hands-on observation on the production floor, identifying constraints, and implementing changes to improve efficiency and throughput. You will collaborate with various teams to develop actionable plans for scaling production and ensuring that the factory meets future demands.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Zipline as an employer.
What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field
- 3+ years of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, operations engineering, production systems, or a comparable environment
- Strong understanding of production system design, capacity planning, line balancing, takt time, cycle-time analysis, standard work, and manufacturing flow
- Demonstrated experience performing time studies and translating observations into labor and capacity models
- Experience designing or improving manufacturing layouts and material-flow systems
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn imperfect production data into clear engineering and business decisions
Nice to have
- Experience scaling a complex electromechanical product from NPI or low-rate production into higher-volume manufacturing
- Experience with discrete-event simulation, optimization, operations research, or other production-system modeling techniques
- Experience with SQL, Python, BI tools, or other methods for analyzing large manufacturing datasets
- Experience with ERP and MES platforms and developing manufacturing dashboards or operational reporting systems
- Experience developing business cases for automation or major manufacturing equipment
Worth weighing
- Role involves significant hands-on work on the production floor, which may not suit everyone.
- No specific salary or benefits mentioned in the posting.
- The position requires a high degree of ownership and problem-solving in ambiguous situations, which may be challenging for some candidates.
Summarised from Zipline 's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Zipline on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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