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Electrical Project Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA · On-site

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About Zipline

Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.

About the role

The Ground System Deployment and Construction Engineering team is seeking a curious, collaborative Electrical Engineering Intern to support the design and deployment of Zipline’s Ground Systems across a variety of sites and applications.

What they're looking for

  • Support engineers with research, drafting, and documentation for electrical distribution and structure-level wiring designs aligned with NEC and relevant standards
  • Assist with UL/TUV certification efforts by gathering documentation, preparing technical materials, and coordinating with engineering partners
  • Help prepare materials, track communication, and support interactions with deployment and construction teams
  • Implement feedback from Deployment and Construction teams to continuously optimize designs for more efficient build and scale
  • Design electrical distribution of commercial and light industrial ground system projects per NEC and relevant applicable codes and standards
  • Design next generation charging structure level electrical wiring and installation approaches
More about this role

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...

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