Corporate Tax Intern (Summer 2027)

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About the role

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 Corporate Tax Team

The Corporate Tax team manages Zipline’s global tax compliance, reporting, provision, planning, and risk management responsibilities across the jurisdictions where we operate.

We partner closely with Finance, Legal, Operations, and business teams to ensure that Zipline’s activities—from research and development and manufacturing to logistics and marketplace services—are structured and reported appropriately. Our work helps protect Zipline’s financial health, support informed business decisions, and enable the company to scale its mission of delivering goods quickly, reliably and sustainably.

What makes our team special is our ability to translate complex, constantly changing tax rules into practical solutions for a fast-growing, technology-driven global business.

The work

The Role

As a Corporate Tax Intern, you will be provided with a hands-on introduction to the day-to-day responsibilities of a corporate tax department. In this role, you will support tax research, compliance, ad hoc projects, and other tax-related activities. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the department’s goals and gain valuable insight into how tax contributes to the company’s overall success.

The work

What You'll Do

• Research tax laws and summarize conclusions for the tax team.
• Assist with sales and use tax, property tax, and other non-income tax compliance.
• Gather and organize financial data needed for federal, state, local, and international tax returns.
• Prepare tax reconciliations, workpapers, and supporting schedules.
• Track filing deadlines, tax notices, and requests from external advisors.
• Help respond to tax audits by locating records and preparing supporting documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve tax processes, data collection, and reporting through automation or better documentation.

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What You'll Bring

What Else You Should Know

This internship is a full-time position, in-person at our South San Francisco office. We will host our Summer 2027 interns from (May/June - August/September). Zipline is unable to sponsor work visas for applicants to this position.

The hourly rate for this internship is $34 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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For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Zipline ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

• You’re currently working on your Masters in Taxation or an undergraduate degree in Accounting with a strong interest in a tax career.
• To get the most out of this internship, you have taken an introductory tax research course or at least one or two tax courses.
• You don’t mind getting into the details but are able to see the big picture.
• You’re diligent but could adapt and pivot as priority changes.