Change Management Intern (Spring 2027)

Responsibilities

• This role on the Change Management/NPI team will help us level up our ability to process and implement changes at high volume and high change velocity. Zipline’s unique ability to quickly improve our hardware and develop new designs allowed us to launch our hardware so successfully, and this role with unlock our ability to expand across the United States and beyond while maintaining the same design improvement velocity.
• Build a tool that visualizes hardware changes over time, shows how product configurations evolve, and highlights hardware capabilities at specified timestamps.
• Build a tool that evaluates configuration compatibility across current and previous hardware revisions and summarizes hardware capabilities for specified configurations.
• Build a user interface for submitting engineering changes that standardizes required information, reduces errors, and generates complete change summaries for technical and non-technical audiences.

What You'll Bring

Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, computer science, information systems, data science, or a related technical field.

Demonstrated experience through coursework, personal projects, research, student organizations, or prior internships building software, data, dashboard, or automation tools.

Familiarity with at least one technical tool or language used to build solutions, such as Python, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, spreadsheets, databases, or low-code application platforms.

Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to understand relationships, dependencies, and business rules within complex, multi-level assemblies or product data.

Ability to gather requirements from users, ask clarifying questions, and turn ambiguous problems into clear workflows, visualizations, or user-friendly interfaces.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document information, explain technical outputs to non-technical audiences, and incorporate feedback from technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to validate data, manage changing priorities, and work independently and collaboratively on complex projects.

What Else You Should Know

This internship is a full-time position, in-person at our South San Francisco office. We will host our Spring 2027 interns from January to April.

Zipline is unable to sponsor work visas for applicants to this position.

The hourly rate for this internship is $40 per hour. Additional benefits may include relocation support, a housing stipend, overtime pay, paid sick time, and other benefits, where applicable and subject to local requirements.

Candidates are limited to three (3) applications within a 30-day period.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your point of contact at Zipline know if you require any accommodations throughout your interview process.

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