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Own the system-level design of welded steel drone-delivery towers and subassemblies, including structural components, mechanisms, and electronics integration. Apply mechanical fundamentals, hand calculations, FEA, CAD, prototyping, and testing to develop reliable products. Collaborate with electrical, software, civil, NPI, and supply chain teams to transition designs into production and field deployment. Maintain BOMs, release parts, create build documentation, support contract manufacturers, and periodically visit customers and suppliers.

Lead Zipline’s industry standards strategy across aviation, autonomy, and commercial UAS delivery. Prioritize standards bodies and committees, represent the company in organizations such as ASTM and RTCA, convert operational and technical knowledge into standards proposals, govern company positions and IP risks, and translate regulatory developments into certification, market-entry, roadmap, and commercial decisions. Brief executives and build alignment with regulators, industry peers, certification organizations, and technical experts.

Supports Zipline’s launch and site operations by organizing milestones, dependencies, risks, and readiness activities; analyzing operational data; preparing status materials; following up on blockers; and building dashboards, playbooks, checklists, or lightweight automations. The intern owns a scoped project from problem definition through pilot, measurement, and handoff, with occasional onsite launch support and travel.

Supports Zipline launch planning and site operations by organizing milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions; analyzing operational data; preparing readiness materials; tracking blockers; and creating dashboards, playbooks, templates, checklists, or lightweight automations. The intern owns a scoped improvement project from definition through pilot and handoff, participates in selected onsite launch activities, and translates field observations into repeatable processes.

Support marketplace strategy and operations through site, cohort, and metro performance analysis. Build reports and dashboards, evaluate pricing, promotions, prioritization, budget allocation, and demand-shaping opportunities, monitor operational constraints, and provide performance readouts. Partner cross-functionally with Commercial, Operations, Marketing, Product, Finance, and Utilization teams to turn insights into actions, measure outcomes, and scale successful programs across Zipline’s delivery network.

Design, build, and sustain electromechanical test equipment for batteries and power electronics. Deliver end-to-end test systems combining mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls, safety, and automation. Create CAD, schematics, wiring, automation scripts, and manufacturing documentation. Commission, validate, troubleshoot, and improve lab and production test fixtures while collaborating across mechanical, electrical, software, reliability, manufacturing, and field teams.

Supports Operations Finance through metric development, reporting, forecasting, financial modeling, SQL-based analysis, dashboard creation, variance analysis, KPI reviews, and operational efficiency initiatives. Partners with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Product, and Data teams to analyze costs, unit economics, performance, and scaling strategies. The internship is full-time and in-person in South San Francisco during Summer 2027.

Supports Operations Finance through metric development, reporting, forecasting, financial modeling, SQL-based operational analysis, dashboard creation, variance analysis, KPI reviews, and process improvements. Partners with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Data, Product, and other cross-functional teams to evaluate costs, efficiency, unit economics, and scaling strategies across global operations.

Contribute to Zipline’s Maps stack by building route-generation services, spatial planning artifacts, geospatial visualization tools, data transformation pipelines, and routing algorithms. The intern will improve the speed, safety, and reliability of autonomous drone flight planning while working with spatial data, path planning, validation, and global data access systems.

Contribute to Zipline’s Maps stack by developing route-generation services, spatial planning artifacts, geospatial visualization tools, data-access systems, and routing algorithms. Improve planning speed, safety, and reliability while working with spatial data, path planning, validation, and transformation pipelines for autonomous drone delivery.