Technical Program Management Intern, Zipline
Powertrain & Battery, Summer 2025
The starting cash range for this role is $38.00 - 42.00 / hour
5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)
Transforming the way goods move
Posted today
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Posted today
The starting cash range for this role is $38.00 - 42.00 / hour
5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To open up access to emergency medical care to everyone in the world.
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 transforming the way goods move by creating the first logistics system that serves all humans equally via a drone delivery service. As the first emergency drone logistics operation, Zipline is fundamentally changing how we transport emergency medical supplies and has expanded into commercial deliveries. It's partnered with several major companies, including Walmart.
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. It is also aiming to start commercial deliveries to individual households in the near future. With big companies such as Amazon and Walmart examining “instant” delivery options, Zipline has a proven track record and the equipment and logistics in place to provide such services. 2023 funding pushed Zipline's valuation to a staggering $4.2 billion, indicating a bright future.
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Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2023
$330m
SERIES F
Jul 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $813.7m
Company benefits
- Generous parental leave
- Generous vacation policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly team events
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Healthy, delicious meals and snacks
- Dog-friendly offices
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
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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