Quality & Manufacturing Intern (Fall 2026)

About Zipline Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. 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 are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About the Quality and Manufacturing Team At Zipline, the Quality and Manufacturing team is essential to delivering safe, reliable, and scalable products that power our global operations. The team is made up of two key disciplines: Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME) and Manufacturing Quality Engineering (MQE) . Together, they drive excellence across the entire product lifecycle — from early design and prototyping to high-volume production and field performance. AME ensures our manufacturing processes are innovative, efficient, and scalable, while MQE safeguards product integrity and compliance through rigorous quality standards and continuous improvement. This team plays a mission-critical role in Zipline’s success by ensuring that every product we build can perform flawlessly in the real world — whether it’s delivering life-saving medical supplies or supporting our expanding logistics network. Their work directly enables Zipline’s ability to scale globally, operate with precision, and fulfill our promise of fast, reliable service to the communities we serve. About the Role As an AME Intern, you will be focused on maintaining assembly lines & designing equipment for Zipline’s Top Level Assemblies (TLAs) that will be manufactured at Zipline's Final Assembly and End of Line Testing. This involves working with internal & external cross-functional stakeholders on design for manufacturing & assembly, assembly process and equipment design, assembly line commissioning, validation & continuous improvement to ensure Zipline can continue to serve its customers with better operational efficiency. As an MQE Intern, you will be focused on the quality and reliability of Zipline’s in-house manufacturing. This involves tracking yield performance, performing root cause analysis and corrective action implementation on assembly and functional test failures, and helping to build a world class manufacturing organization by implementing innovative processes to improve performance during manufacturing and in the field What You'll Do As an AME Intern , you will: Dfx Discussion: Assist Design for X conversation with internal & external stakeholders for Zipline TLAs and sub-assemblies. Assembly Line Management: Assist planning, budgeting, design, procurement, commissioning & validation of Assembly Lines and associated equipment at Zipline for Product Validation Builds and at Zipline TLA CMs