Software Test Automation Intern, Zipline
Fall 2025
The starting cash range for this role is $38 - 42 / hour.
3-5 days a week in office
Transforming the way goods move
Job no longer available
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
The starting cash range for this role is $38 - 42 / hour.
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's first logistics system that serves all people equally.
Role
Who you are
- Experience programming in Python
- Familiarity with using Linux
- Experience developing software that interfaces directly with robotics, hardware, and instrumentation (forms of interprocess communication, CAN, TCP/IP, UDP)
- Experience with motors and batteries
- An understanding of basic electrical and/or mechanical principles
- Demonstrates communicating technical information to peers clearly and without ambiguity
- Experience coding in a local development environment
- Experience navigating datasheets and writing basic drivers for new components
What the job involves
- Join Zipline’s Software Test Automation team and help build the systems that ensure our hardware is rock-solid—from prototype to production
- You’ll write test software, automate hardware, analyze real-world data, and work directly with engineers and vendors to deploy systems on the manufacturing line
- . This is a hands-on role with real ownership, meaningful impact, and cross-functional collaboration from day one
- Our interns contribute directly to the systems that keep Zipline’s hardware reliable and production-ready. Projects include:
- Battery end-of-line (EOL) testing and data analysis
- Distribution board functional testing
- Motor testing at multiple levels—from PCBAs to full assemblies using dynamometers and wind tunnels
- Building data pipelines with Snowflake to gather and present production insights to the Battery team and others
- End-to-end test system development—from designing how a tester interfaces with the device under test (DUT), to writing automation software, to presenting test data for engineering use
- You’ll work across hardware, software, and data—owning real systems that go into active use
- Work with cross-functional teams in order to build a clear set of component and/or tester requirements
- Architect and implement software to validate the design and assembly of components from circuit boards to large mechanical assemblies
- Develop automation-centric software to streamline components testing, data collection and analysis
- Gain a deep understanding of the components under test to become an expert on its expected and intended behavior under different conditions
- Own a test asset through its entire lifecycle from planning and implementation to validation and analysis of results
- We will host our Fall 2025 interns from September to December
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
34% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Nov 2025
$150m
GRANT
Apr 2023
$330m
SERIES F
Total funding: $963.7m
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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