Perception Intern (Fall 2026)

Zipline is the world’s largest drone delivery service, committed to ensuring equal access to essential goods. The Perception Intern will engage in machine learning model experimentation and integration, contributing to innovative solutions for perception challenges in autonomous delivery systems.

What you'll do:

• Ideate, experiment and iterate on learning-based solutions for unique perception challenges
• Collaborate closely with team members, brainstorming and deriving creative solutions from first principles
• Leverage heterogeneous sources of data (real-world, simulation and internet-scale data) to train machine learning models
• Ship production code to train, validate and integrate models into the perception system
• Share findings and insights, fostering knowledge exchange across teams

What they're looking for:

• You must have completed the second year of your undergraduate studies. Masters and PhD students are also eligible
• A proven history of quality ML research, reflected by publications in conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoRL, RSS, etc
• Specific expertise in areas such as multi view depth estimation, semantic segmentation, generative modeling, etc
• Proficiency with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
• Experience writing code in a production environment, e.g. at a previous internship
• Ability to rapidly experiment, iterate, and adapt to new findings in a dynamic environment

Benefits:

• Relocation support
• A housing stipend
• Overtime pay
• Paid sick time
• Other benefits, where applicable and subject to local requirements