Zipline International Inc.
Zip Motion Planning Intern (Summer 2027)
South San Francisco, California, USA · Intern · Internship
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About the role
- Our distinctive challenges require that we understand the ins and outs of our performance.
- You'll work directly with our team in a fast-paced and collaborative environment, and interact daily with flight testing ops and data from our fleet.
- Join us, and be at the frontier of shaping the future of autonomous deliveries.
Responsibilities
- Develop and evaluate motion planning algorithms for autonomous aircraft, exploring approaches such as search, sampling, and optimization.
- Build simulation and analysis tools to compare planner behavior and investigate challenging scenarios.
- Use simulation and flight data to identify long-tail issues, validate safety metrics, and guide improvements.
- Collaborate closely with team members, brainstorming and deriving creative solutions from first principles.
- 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 can't achieve our ambitious goals for safety and scale without perfecting our designs and pushing what is possible.
- We need you to help us gather data, measure our system, analyze performance, drive the next generation of algorithmic designs, and prioritize the development that produces the highest impact.
Requirements
- Experience with C++ or Rust
Compensation
- Additional benefits may include relocation support, a housing stipend, overtime pay, paid sick time, and other benefits, where applicable and subject to local requirements he total compensation package for each role may also include: a hous
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.
- Our internships are full-time positions, in-person at our South San Francisco office. We will host our Summer 2027 interns from May/June to August/September
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