Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
About the role
As an Embedded Firmware intern, you’ll take ownership of a meaningful project that helps improve the safety, reliability, or performance of Zipline’s vehicles and ground systems. You’ll write and test software, work hands-on with hardware, and help investigate real-world behavior seen in our labs and operations. Your work will contribute directly to making autonomous deliveries more dependable for the communities that rely on them!
What they're looking for
- Design, implement, and test embedded software that supports Zipline’s vehicles, batteries, chargers, or ground systems
- Work hands-on with hardware in the lab, learning how software communicates with sensors, power electronics, and other onboard components
- Use logs, test equipment, and experiments to investigate unexpected behavior and turn findings into reliable fixes
- Build automated tests that catch regressions early and help ensure our systems behave safely in real-world conditions
- Own a scoped project from initial requirements through validation, with guidance from an experienced engineering mentor
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and cross-functional work with electrical, mechanical, systems, and test engineers
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.
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