Software Release Program Manager Intern, Zipline
Spring 2026
The starting cash range for this internship is $30 - 44/ hour
3-5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)
Transforming the way goods move
Be an early applicant
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
The starting cash range for this internship is $30 - 44/ hour
3-5 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
- You are pursuing a degree in engineering or sciences with an emphasis in data sciences, data engineering, or engineering management
- Requirements gathering and metric definition – collaborating with stakeholders to define what to measure, why it matters, and how success is quantified
- Data infrastructure fluency – ability to onboard quickly onto complex data systems and understand how information flows across them
- SQL and query proficiency – retrieving, joining, and validating data across multiple sources to build accurate metrics
- Dashboard and visualization expertise – designing clear, intuitive, and actionable dashboards
- Strong cross-functional communication and documentation skills– translating technical data concepts for non-technical audiences and aligning diverse teams around shared metrics as well as creating and maintaining clear standards for metric definitions, data sources, and dashboard usage
- Risk and quality management – identifying data gaps, inconsistencies, or errors that could compromise release decisions, and building safeguards
- Strategic insight and decision support – using data analysis and visualization to inform release gating, process improvements, and long-term standardization
What the job involves
- You’ll be joining the Software Validation Team. Our mission is to proactively surface regressions and uncover system-level risk before it impacts our products
- We act as a systems-level quality layer for software — verifying readiness across performance, behavior, and safety through structured testing, validation programs, and process ownership. Key products we own include: Flight Software Releases, key validation infrastructure, change control review, and configuration management
- This role will play a critical part in strengthening the infrastructure and documentation that support the flight software release process
- You will be responsible for identifying organizational gaps, gathering requirements, and improving the data infrastructure and dashboards that inform and gate releases
- By partnering closely with hardware, software, and operations teams, you will standardize and advance how release metrics are defined, tracked, and communicated across the company
- This is a highly cross-functional role with broad visibility and impact, requiring both technical fluency and strong coordination skills
- Gather and align requirements across product, engineering, operations, and leadership teams to define the critical metrics that matter for cross-company visibility
- Onboard onto a complex hardware–software platform, learning data flows, system dependencies, and integration points needed to extract accurate, reliable metrics
- Design and build dashboards that unify data sources, ensure consistency, and present information in a way that supports decision-making at multiple organizational levels
- Drive documentation and stakeholder alignment, creating clear specs that establish how metrics are defined, tracked, and used to inform future releases
- Gate program and product launches with data by ensuring dashboards surface leading indicators, trends, and anomalies, enabling evidence-based “go/no-go” decisions
- Our internships are full-time positions, in-person at our South San Francisco or Dallas office. We will host our Spring 2026 interns from January to April
Application process
- Candidates are limited to three (3) applications within a 30-day period
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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