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 Zipline

Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building the first instant logistics system that serves all humans equally. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, builds, and operates a fleet of cutting edge, autonomous delivery drones. We serve tens of millions of people around the world.

Joining Zipline’s Emerging Talent program as an intern is an opportunity to contribute to our promise of building a system that provides equitable access to critical healthcare supplies for millions of people. We believe that internships are more than just opportunities to learn by watching or doing low level tasks. We expect our interns to take on meaningful work that actively contributes to moving Zipline’s mission forward, while learning real-world skills that will serve them in their careers for the long term. 

Join us, and build the future of logistics with the best humans around!

About the Communications Team

Zipline’s communications team shapes and shares the company’s story and impact. We develop and implement strategies and tactics to educate audiences about Zipline, tell stories that raise awareness about what we’re doing and the impact we’re having, increase acceptance of and excitement for our system, and cultivate strong ambassadors. We are passionate storytellers and make complex topics simple and understandable.

Zipline is entering a new phase of growth—rapid expansion in the U.S. alongside continued global scaling. As our physical footprint grows, we’re also expanding our digital work, scaling and automating how we manage our presence on the internet, both through established approaches, and building support and delight in nascent, frontier spaces. Our team is small, highly-autonomous, low-ego and trusted to use strong judgement on building long-term belief and trust in our brand.

About the Role

This is a non-traditional, 1-of-1 role for someone exceptional at building things people love on the internet, especially outside of traditional social media.  We are hiring for high-agency talent we can grow and empower, not a narrow set of responsibilities.

You’ll be tasked with two problems, and given extreme ownership over them:

1. Help Zipline’s communications team outperform companies 1000x our scale. 
2. Help build Zipline into an enduring, legendary brand across the internet.

Done well, this will include using AI to build cutting-edge tools that automate and scale the grunt work of communications, while creating high-taste, high-visibility digital experiences that build positive associations with Zipline’s brand across the internet.

This is a full-time, in-person internship with possible conversion based on performance. 

What You'll Do

This role is limited only by your ambition and creativity, not a narrow job description. We’ll work together on making projects that are the right fit for your skills, affinities, and growth path.

At a high-level, you’ll: 

• Expand Zipline's presence in emerging digital spaces — we have a strong presence in traditional and social media, but our ambitions are greater: how do we make Zipline top of mind across AI platforms, niche communities, servers, co-ops, and all the spaces driving internet culture today. Your pulse for the cultural zeitgeist will directly help shape Zipline’s internet presence. 
• Create digital experiences that people love. Microsites, interactive tools, mini-games, visual storytelling — ways of digital storytelling that help people experience Zipline and become supporters before they’re actually able to use our service. 
• Build AI-powered tools and automations that help a small comms team punch way above its weight — monitoring dashboards, content workflows, research agents, and things we haven't thought of yet. You'll ship and iterate quickly, and refine foundational tools for our team while learning from Zipline’s elite technical talent.
• Support and learn traditional communications functions. You’ll already have taste for what’s good on the internet, but you’ll also be involved in our broader, more traditional communications functions, like lending a hand preparing for a high-profile interview, prepping for a video shoot, or helping draft content for an engineering blog. We work as a team, and will help you grow your competencies across the function.

What You'll Bring

High-agency, entrepreneurialism: Most of the time you’ll operate with no playbook, doing something no one else has done before. You’ll need to be comfortable in ambiguity, biased toward action, and low-ego about missteps.  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain online trends, communities, and user behavior to different audiences.
• Experience making and sharing projects on the public internet: 99% of the internet lurks. You’re the 1% that likes to build things, and you can prove it. 
• Experience and excitement for building with AI: we don’t expect you to be a true AI/ML programmer (Zipline has other roles for that), but you should have experience using AI to make things other people have interacted with.
• Demonstrated fluency of your corner of the internet: perhaps you moderated Minecraft or Discord servers, or sold Roblox mods, or built something HN loved, or developed a sizable AO3 or Reddit fandom. This is a role geared toward emerging and interactive spaces, not standard social media.

What Else You Should Know

Our internships are full-time positions, in-person at our South San Francisco or Dallas office. We will host our Summer 2026 interns from May to September. 

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

The starting cash range for this internship is $34 - 39 per hour. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and working location. The total compensation package for each role may also include: a housing stipend; overtime pay; relocation support; paid sick time; and more. 

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.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

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.