Business Development Intern

Job description

<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Business Development Intern</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Location:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> San Jose, California</span> <br><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Employment type:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> U.S. internship</span> <br><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Team:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> Business Development, Compute Connectivity Group</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the role</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Astera Labs is a leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions that enable the scalability and performance required for modern cloud and AI infrastructure. The Business Development Intern will support the team that identifies market opportunities, develops customer and partner insights, and helps translate business needs into actionable priorities for Astera Labs’ connectivity portfolio.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">This is a hands-on opportunity to work at the intersection of technology, markets, customers, partners, and go-to-market strategy. You will collaborate with product, engineering, sales, field applications, and marketing partners to research industry developments, evaluate opportunities, and communicate clear recommendations to technical and business audiences.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What you’ll do</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will help shape the product strategy and commercial evaluation of high-speed scale-up switching silicon that connects thousands of AI accelerators (GPUs/XPUs) into a unified compute fabric. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will work closely with hardware architects, system verification teams, and go-to-market leaders to translate complex distributed AI demands into actionable product requirements.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will conduct market & competitive analysis in the following areas:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Interconnect Protocol Benchmarking: Assist in tracking and mapping technical metrics (latency, bisection bandwidth, power dissipation, and die area) across PCIe Gen 6/7, UALink, and ESUN (Ethernet Scale-Up Networks).</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Use internal LLM-based market intelligence copilots to aggregate, parse, and benchmark PPA (Power, Performance, Area), latency overhead, and cost-per-gigabit metrics.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Silicon Cost & Die-Size Tradeoff Modeling: Partner with hardware architects to run AI-assisted parametric models evaluating monolithic switch dies versus chiplet packaging economics.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Competitive Intelligence Tracking: Help maintain comprehensive database tracking competitor switch roadmaps, transceiver capabilities, and silicon cost-per-gigabit versus standard and proprietary fabrics.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will conduct customer & workload analysis in the following areas:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Distributed AI Workload Profiling: Study communication primitives of large language model (LLM) training (e.g., All-Reduce, All-to-All) to understand how switch tail-latency impacts Model Flops Utilization (MFU).</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Workload-to-Fabric Translation: Use AI-driven cluster traffic generators and simulation frameworks to model how massive distributed AI training workloads (e.g., Megatron-LM All-Reduce, All-to-All collectives, expert parallelism) strain switch buffer utilization and tail-latency budgets.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Cluster Topology Modeling: Build lightweight economic and performance models (using Python/Excel) to evaluate how different scale-up switch topologies (torus, fat-tree, rail-optimized, 1-tier, 1.5-tier, 2-tier) scale across 1,000+ node GPU pods.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Automated Telemetry Synthesis: Process raw simulation logs, emulation waveforms, and customer cluster bottleneck logs using internal analytics models to auto-populate and prioritize the next-generation switch feature backlog (PRD updates).</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Build structured analyses, trackers, dashboards, and presentations that make business and technical information easy to understand and act on.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"469777462":[360,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[0,8]}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Support opportunity assessments and business cases by organizing relevant data, clarifying assumptions, and highlighting risks, tradeoffs, and next steps.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"469777462":[360,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[0,8]}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Work cross-functionally with Product & Platform, Engineering, Sales, Field Applications Engineering, Marketing, and ecosystem partners to translate external insights into product, partner, or go-to-market actions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"469777462":[360,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[0,8]}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Prepare meeting materials, capture decisions and action items, and help maintain follow-up across internal and external engagements.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"469777462":[360,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[0,8]}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Communicate technical concepts and their business implications clearly in written updates and presentations.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"469777462":[360,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[0,8]}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Own a meaningful internship project from scope through delivery and share your findings and recommendations with stakeholders at the end of the internship.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"469777462":[360,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[0,8]}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What you bring</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in business, business analytics, marketing, economics, engineering, computer science, or a related field.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to organize and interpret market, business, and technical information.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to synthesize complex topics for different audiences.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Curiosity about semiconductors, cloud and AI infrastructure, data centers, connectivity technologies, and how technology decisions create business value.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Ability to work collaboratively across technical and business teams, manage details, and follow through on commitments.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Comfort working through ambiguity, asking thoughtful questions, and turning open-ended problems into structured next steps.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Coursework, projects, or prior experience in market research, competitive analysis, business strategy, product management, partnerships, sales, or technical communications is helpful.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Preferred qualifications</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Familiarity with data center hardware or software ecosystems and technologies such as PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, ESUN, NVLink, or UALink.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience creating business analyses, dashboards, presentations, or other structured reporting materials.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience collaborating with engineering, product, sales, marketing, or external partner teams.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What you’ll learn</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">How business development teams evaluate market opportunities, customer needs, partner relationships, and adoption signals in a rapidly evolving technology market.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">How to connect technical capabilities with customer value, product strategy, and go-to-market priorities.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">How to communicate research findings and recommendations to technical, business, and leadership audiences.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">How cross-functional teams work together to bring semiconductor-based connectivity solutions to market.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Internship experience and compensation</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">This is a paid, hourly U.S. internship. The applicable hourly rate is determined as part of the offer process and specified in the offer letter, depending on education level ranges from $35/hour to $55/hour. U.S. interns currently receive a $500-per-week housing/relocation stipend for the duration of the internship. Interns participate in Early Career programming, including technical and professional-development sessions, community events, and an end-of-program project presentation.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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