- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 4, 2026
Aircraft Software Integration Intern (Spring 2027)
Job description
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…
Job responsibilities
- Work on integration of complex autonomy features , spanning embedded flight software, real-time behavior logic, and mission-critical runtime systems.
- Implement core vehicle software in Rust , with a focus on performance, safety, and observability in safety-critical environments.
- Develop tooling to support validation, including software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for rapid iteration and safe experimentation.
- Partner with systems engineering and autonomy teams to define real-world success metrics and build the interfaces and logging infrastructure to track them.
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