Responsibilities
- Build and maintain services that generate routes and spatial planning artifacts.
- Use visualization and evaluation tools to analyze geospatial features affecting serviceability.
- Collaborate with teams to make spatial data accessible globally with low latency.
- Improve planning algorithms for fast, safe, and reliable routing.
- Contribute to path-planning algorithms, artifact validation, spatial data generation, and data transformation pipelines.
Requirements
- Must have completed at least the second year of undergraduate studies; master’s and PhD students are also eligible.
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills.
- Deep understanding of algorithmic optimization.
- Proficient coding and programming skills.
- Understanding of automated testing practices.
- Preferred experience supporting or developing novel algorithmic research.
- Preferred experience with spatial data.
Benefits
- Full-time Summer 2027 internship running from May/June through August/September.
- In-person work at Zipline’s South San Francisco office.
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About Zipline
Zipline was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest automated delivery system. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world and is making good on the promise of building an equitable and more resilient global supply chain. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart and enabling leading healthcare providers to bring care into the home in the United States, Zipline is transforming the way goods move. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Zipline is inspiring people, governments, and businesses to imagine what is possible when goods can move as seamlessly as information. To join the team, check out our career page: https://flyzipline.com/careers/