# Applied AI Intern - Non-Silicon at Astera Labs

- Company: [Astera Labs](https://asteralabs.com)
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Type: Internship · Internship
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteraearlycareer2027/jobs/4728357005
- Page: https://newgrad.ai/jobs/applied-ai-intern-non-silicon-73c27fd9

## Summary by newgrad.ai

What you'll do:

- Convert unclear requirements into concrete plans with measurable objectives.
- Create prototypes using AI, machine learning, or autonomous agent technologies.
- Complete full lifecycle development including construction, validation, and user feedback.
- Track performance metrics and incorporate stakeholder input to refine solutions.

What they're looking for:

- Prior experience building software, training models, or working with AI systems.
- Passion for solving real business challenges rather than academic exercises.
- Familiarity with architecture, coding, quality assurance, or release processes.
- Self-directed approach with strong execution and comfort navigating uncertain situations.

Pay and perks:

- Hourly compensation between $35–$55 based on academic standing.
- $500 weekly housing allowance throughout the internship period.
- Professional development workshops and networking events for early-career participants.

## Posting

### Applied AI Intern

Team: Applied AI — Non-Silicon

Location: San Jose, California

Employment type: Internship

### About the role

Astera Labs is looking for an Applied AI Intern to help build practical AI capabilities outside the company's ASIC and silicon-development workflows. You will work with the Applied AI team, task leads, and cross-functional stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into useful prototypes and dependable solutions.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys moving from problem definition to implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration. You will have the opportunity to apply full-stack machine learning and generative AI programming, system design, and agent design to projects that improve efficiency and create measurable value for internal teams and stakeholders.

### What you'll do

- Understand a problem, clarify requirements, define success criteria, and translate them into an actionable project plan.

- Design and prototype machine learning, generative AI, or agentic solutions for non-silicon use cases.

- Build, test, deploy, debug, and validate a project end to end, including end-user testing.

- Move solutions through scoping, prototyping, user feedback, maintenance, and governance.

- Use metrics and stakeholder feedback to evaluate impact, improve quality, and identify next steps.

- Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to technical and non-technical partners.

- Drive your work independently while seeking feedback early and collaborating effectively across the Applied AI team.

- Document project outcomes, future use cases, and recommendations for continued development.

### What you bring

- Hands-on experience through coursework, research, personal projects, or prior work involving programming, machine learning, generative AI, or software systems.

- Interest in applying AI to real operational or business problems—not only building models in isolation.

- Exposure to system design, agent design, software development, testing, deployment, or debugging.

- Ability to learn quickly, work through ambiguity, and turn feedback into concrete improvements.

- Strong ownership, organization, and follow-through, with the ability to set and meet milestones.

- Clear written and verbal communication and a collaborative approach to working with stakeholders.

### What success looks like

By the end of the internship, you will have owned a meaningful project from scope through delivery, deployed a useful prototype or solution, demonstrated measurable outcomes, and clearly explained its impact and future path. You will contribute to a culture of building quickly, learning from feedback, and evangelizing practical AI adoption.

### Internship experience and compensation

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 form $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.

From Astera Labs's public posting, laid out for reading by newgrad.ai with the wording unchanged. Check the original before you apply.

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