Zipline
Controls Engineer Intern (Summer 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
Supports the Flight Controls team by developing, testing, and analyzing flight algorithms and tools to improve autonomous aircraft performance, safety, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and release flight algorithms and create tests that demonstrate performance and prevent regressions.
- Improve simulation and controls analysis tools to predict vehicle performance and assess safety and reliability.
- Analyze flight data, develop onboard integrity tests, and present results to the engineering team.
What they ask for
- Applied mathematics skills and ownership of a controls solution for a team project, thesis, or competition.
- Exposure to precision integrated inertial navigation, dynamic modeling of complex systems, linear control analysis, or optimal control with uncertainty.
- Software engineering skills; the posting prefers experience with both embedded software and technical computing.
Nice to have
- Experience with C, C++, or Rust and MATLAB, python, or Julia.
- Experience with Github and working in a multi-developer environment.
Pay
$40 per hour (hourly rate)
Tools
C, C++, Rust, MATLAB, python, Julia, Github
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