Long Range Platform Hardware Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Zipline in South San Francisco is seeking a Hardware Engineering Intern to join the Long Range Platform Design Engineering team. You will work hands-on with structures, electromechanical systems, and test hardware used on Zipline's long-range autonomous delivery aircraft.

You’ll collaborate with Test, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Operations to solve real-world challenges, learn from senior engineers, and help advance reliable, lightweight hardware that enables rapid, global delivery.

Responsibilities

• As a Hardware Engineering Intern on the Long Range Platform Design Engineering team.

Job description

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 largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

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 largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.

About The Long Range Platform Engineering Team

The Long Range Platform Design Engineering team is responsible for designing, testing, and continuously improving the hardware that makes up Zipline's long-range autonomous delivery aircraft. We own hardware across the aircraft, from structures and mechanisms to electromechanical systems, taking designs from early concepts and prototypes through validation, production, and operation in the field. Our engineers work hands-on and cross-functionally, partnering closely with teams across Test, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Operations to solve challenging multidisciplinary problems. We focus not just on making hardware that works, but on making it reliable, lightweight, manufacturable, maintainable, and capable of performing day after day in demanding environments. By improving the performance and reliability of our aircraft, our team directly enables Zipline to deliver critical goods safely and consistently at global scale. What makes our team special is the breadth of ownership: you can take an idea from a sketch or CAD model, build and test it yourself, and ultimately see it flying in a system serving customers around the world.

Your Role

As a Hardware Engineering Intern on the Long Range Platform Design Engineering team