# Flight Test 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: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/7999929003?gh_jid=7999929003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-flight-test-engineer-intern-spring-2027/

## About the role

As a Flight Test Engineering Intern, you will be instrumental in analyzing flight test data logs to determine test effectiveness, identify success/failure root causes, and track performance trends. You will also directly contribute to the design of new flight test campaigns, collaborating with other engineers to define the test scope, test method, and data post-processing.

## What they're looking for

- Analyze flight test data logs using custom scripts (Python, DataBricks, SQL) to identify anomalies, assess reliability, track performance trends, and perform regression analyses
- Design, oversee the execution, and review the results of software validation and flight test campaigns to ensure new features perform as intended and prevent hardware/software regression
- Daily test and monitor the develop branch to quickly surface instability and potential future issues
- Establish and maintain documentation, dashboards, and SQL search queries to track test progress and operational efficiency
- Be ready to directly own any aspect of flight operations (preflight, launch, flight maneuvers, incident reporting) or supervise these activities with the flight operations team

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