Zipline is hiring a
Controls Intern

Summary

Join Zipline's Emerging Talent program as an intern on the GNC team to contribute to developing, testing, and maintaining flight software systems that enable autonomous aircraft delivery. As an intern, you will learn how to fly autonomous aircraft in challenging conditions, analyze flight data, design onboard integrity tests, and present key results to the engineering team.

Requirements

• Your applied math skills stand out even among aerospace engineers
• You think simulations and working with hardware are both fun
• You have owned and developed controls solutions for a team project, thesis, or competition
• Exposure in one or more of the following areas: precision integrated inertial navigation, dynamic modeling of complex systems, linear control analysis, or optimal control with uncertainty
• Software engineering skills, preferably with both embedded software (C, C++) and technical computing (MATLAB, python, Julia, etc.). Experience with Github and working in a multi-developer environment is an advantage

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, implementation, testing and release of innovative flight algorithms that improve the operational performance of our vehicle controllers
• Create tools and tests to demonstrate your design performance and protect against software regressions, using both theoretical guarantees and simulations
• Analyze flight data to assess recent changes and upgrades, looking for regressions and potential areas for future improvement
• Design onboard integrity tests to communicate when the system performance is degraded
• Present key results and changes to the broader engineering team