Powertrain Battery - Technical Program Management Intern Summer 2025
Powertrain Battery - Technical Program Management Intern Summer 2025
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$ 38 - 42
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About Zipline
Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the worlds most urgent and complex access challenges by building the first instant logistics system that serves all humans equally. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy Zipline designs builds and operates a fleet of cutting edge autonomous delivery drones. We serve tens of millions of people around the world.
Joining Ziplines Emerging Talent program as an intern is an opportunity to contribute to our promise of building a system that provides equitable access to critical healthcare supplies for millions of people. We believe that internships are more than just opportunities to learn by watching or doing low level tasks. We expect our interns to take on meaningful work that actively contributes to moving Ziplines mission forward while learning realworld skills that will serve them in their careers for the long term.
Join us and build the future of logistics with the best humans around!
About Zipline Powertrain Test Team
The Powertrain team is a multidisciplinary hardware and software team responsible for designing the electric drivetrain at the heart of our lifesaving 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 teams priorities and drive of key milestones in a constantly changing environment.
What Youll Do
- Understand and mitigate technical and program risks to keep Ziplines powertrain testing programming on track
- Manage and support crossfunctional 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 crossfunctional teams
What Youll Bring
- 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 nonengineers alike.
- Enthusiasm for collaborating in a fast paced and highly crossfunctional 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 Ziplines South San Francisco office 5 days a week
What Else You Need to Know
Our internships are fulltime positions inperson at our South San Francisco office. We will host our Summer 2025 interns from May to September.
The starting cash range for this role is $38.00 42.00 / hour. Please note that this is a target starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors including a specific candidates experience qualifications skills and working location. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws or our own sensibilities.
We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit please apply!
Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your point of contact at Zipline know if you require any accommodations throughout your interview process.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
