Zipline International Inc.
Computational Physics Intern (Spring 2027)
South San Francisco, California, USA · Intern · Internship
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About the role
- How much of the benefit of a larger motor is counteracted by its aerodynamic penalty?
- How much range are we willing to give up for extra payload capacity?
- How do we optimally control battery charging - electrically and thermally - to strike a balance between turnaround time and battery longevity?
Responsibilities
- Develop computational tools to automate high-level design trades, optimizations, and sensitivity studies
- Build physics-based models that underlie aircraft performance simulations
- Analyze test data to validate vehicle component models
- A drive to help people and make the world a better place
- The ability to recognize tradeoffs in the design of complex computational analysis frameworks
- We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably.
- Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics.
- We develop physics-based models and use them to architect our aircraft, as well as the supporting logistics system.
- Using simulation, we can rapidly explore a vast array of designs to optimize future products, and we can find ways to squeeze more performance out of our existing products.
- Leading the way in drone delivery requires pushing the limits of individual component technologies and carefully orchestrating which ones we put together to optimize the performance of the complete vehicle.
Requirements
- Proficiency in numerical methods
Nice to have
- Basic understanding of batteries, electric motors, and/or aircraft dynamics
- and typical approaches to modeling them
- Experience interpreting experimental data
- Experience with model-based systems design, ideally in an extracurricular setting
- What Else You Should Know
- Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
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Skills
- Answering these types of questions requires high-caliber computational tools.
Benefits
- With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
Company info
- We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere.
- We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
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