Controls Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 86 days Zipline 's roles stay open a median of 100 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 51% of Zipline 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Zipline
- high 342 stale, 6 reposted of 342 open
- Hiring momentum
- 127 roles opened in the last 90 days ↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-11-14
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Zipline 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Zipline .
About this role
As a Controls Engineer Intern at Zipline, you will work on the Flight Controls team, contributing to the design, implementation, testing, and release of flight algorithms for autonomous aircraft. You will analyze flight data, develop simulation tools, and create tests to ensure system performance and reliability. This role offers hands-on experience with real-world applications, allowing you to see the impact of your contributions firsthand.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Zipline as an employer.
What you need
- Strong applied math skills
- Experience with controls solutions in team projects, thesis, or competitions
- Exposure to precision integrated inertial navigation, dynamic modeling, linear control analysis, or optimal control with uncertainty
- Software engineering skills in embedded software (C, C++, Rust) and technical computing (MATLAB, Python, Julia)
- Experience with GitHub and multi-developer environments
Worth weighing
- Internship is full-time and in-person, requiring presence at the South San Francisco or Dallas office
- Internship duration is from May/June to August/September 2027
- Candidates are limited to three applications within a 30-day period
Summarised from Zipline 's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Zipline on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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