Technical Program Management Intern, Zipline

Powertrain & Battery, Summer 2025

Salary not provided

The starting cash range for this role is $38.00 - 42.00 / hour

San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)

Transforming the way goods move

Job no longer available

Transforming the way goods move

1001+ employees

HealthcareB2BLogisticsSupply ChainDelivery

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

The starting cash range for this role is $38.00 - 42.00 / hour

San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)

1001+ employees

HealthcareB2BLogisticsSupply ChainDelivery

Company mission

To build the world's first logistics system that serves all people equally.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Must have at least completed the second year of your undergraduate studies or equivalent. Masters and PhD students are also eligible
Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain challenges and solutions to fellow engineers and non-engineers alike
Enthusiasm for collaborating in a fast paced and highly cross-functional environment
Ability to pick up technical concepts rapidly
Ability to drive clarity amidst chaos and ambiguity
Extreme ownership and a bias for action
Must be eligible to work in the US
Demonstrated skill in aligning priorities, coordinating timelines, and leading complex scope, resource, and schedule trades
Must be able to work in person at Zipline’s South San Francisco office 5 days a week

What the job involves

The Powertrain team is a multi-disciplinary hardware and software team responsible for designing the electric drivetrain at the heart of our life-saving drone delivery service, operating in some of the harshest environments on earth
The Powertrain TPM Test is responsible for ensuring that Zipline achieves our company goals on time and on budget
Our TPMs live across our 6 hardware teams and collaborate with engineers of many disciplines to design, build, and test our drones and charging infrastructure. Program managers align their team’s priorities and drive execution of key milestones in a constantly changing environment
Understand and mitigate technical and program risks to keep Zipline’s powertrain testing programming on track
Manage and support cross-functional teams across electrical and mechanical engineering, design validation, and embedded software domains to build and execute a plan to develop new hardware
Drive prototype and test activities to validate next generation powertrain hardware designs
Report program updates to leadership
Manage new infrastructure builds for our test campaigns and track hardware sample allocations
Organize and facilitate meetings with cross-functional teams

Our take

Zipline is reinventing how the world moves goods - one flight at a time. What started as a bold idea to deliver life-saving medical supplies by drones has grown into the world's first logistics network designed to serve everyone, everywhere. From rushing blood and vaccines to remote clinics, to dropping off everyday essential for Walmart customers, Ziplines's autonomous drones are proving that fast, reliable delivery doesn't have to be limited by roads or geography.

Zipline has an edge over potential future competitors as the company has thousands of hours and over 35 million miles of flight to prove the system is safe and effective. It’s also one of the first companies to receive a full commercial operating certificate, putting Zipline in a strong position to continuously branch out to other markets.

The unicorn company operates globally and has signed its first government contract with Rwanda to provide up to 2 million drone deliveries by 2029. Beyond government partnerships, Zipline has its sight set on everyday consumers, preparing to launch commercial deliveries straight to individuals houses. With its Walmart collaboration expanding and even Chipotle orders taking to the skies in Texas, Zipline isn't just redefining delivery - it's aiming to reach every corner of commerce, with a future that looks as bright as its ambitions.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

34% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Apr 2023

$330m

SERIES F

Jul 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $813.7m

Company HQ

South San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Having studied Economics and Biotechnology at Harvard, they worked for almost 11 months as a self-employed rock climber. They combined their academic and practical experience to co-found Zipline in July 2011.

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