# Controls Engineer Intern (Spring 2027) at Zipline

- Company: Zipline
- What the company does: Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
- Company website: https://flyzipline.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Internship
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/7903823003?gh_jid=7903823003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-controls-engineer-intern-spring-2027/

## About the role

Zipline’s people thrive on finding elegant solutions to complex problems, given what exists today and what we can develop to maturity quickly and confidently. We stay close to our customers, learn what really works, and find where we can put the leverage to make a big difference for them now.

## What they're looking for

- Contribute to the design, implementation, testing and release of innovative flight algorithms that improve the operational performance of our vehicle controllers
- Create tools and tests to demonstrate your design performance and protect against software regressions, using both theoretical guarantees and simulations
- Develop and improve simulation and other controls analysis tools so we can predict vehicle performance ahead of time and prove safety and reliability
- Analyze flight data to assess recent changes and upgrades, looking for regressions and potential areas for future improvement
- Design onboard integrity tests to communicate when the system performance is degraded
- Present key results and changes to the broader engineering team

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Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-controls-engineer-intern-spring-2027/