Zipline
Controls Engineer Intern (Spring 2027)
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Internship · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States
About the job
Develop and analyze flight-control algorithms, tools, and tests for autonomous aircraft, using simulation and flight data to improve vehicle performance and safety.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and release flight algorithms; create tests and tools to assess performance and prevent regressions.
- Improve simulation and controls-analysis tools to predict vehicle performance and demonstrate safety and reliability.
- Analyze flight data, design onboard integrity tests, and present results to the engineering team.
What they ask for
- Applied mathematics skills.
- Experience developing controls solutions for a team project, thesis, or competition.
- Exposure to at least one of: precision integrated inertial navigation, dynamic modeling of complex systems, linear control analysis, or optimal control with uncertainty.
- Software engineering skills; embedded software and technical computing experience are preferred.
Nice to have
- Experience with embedded software (C, C++, Rust) and technical computing (MATLAB, python, Julia, etc.).
- Experience with Github and multi-developer environments.
Pay
$40 per hour (hourly rate)
Tools
C, C++, Rust, MATLAB, python, Julia, Github
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