# Lab Strategy Engineer Intern at Astera Labs - Company: [Astera Labs](https://asteralabs.com) - Location: San Jose, CA - Type: Internship · Internship - Posted: 2026-09-09 - Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteraearlycareer2027/jobs/4731583005 - Page: https://newgrad.ai/jobs/lab-strategy-engineer-intern-5944b5a8 ## Summary by newgrad.ai What you'll do: - Calculate three-phase power and monitor distribution across lab environments. - Track cooling capacity and plan infrastructure for high-density AI racks. - Coordinate lab build-outs, equipment procurement, and facility expansion projects. - Use Excel to create dashboards and report on lab utilization. What they're looking for: - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with up to one year experience. - Proficiency in C programming for sensor interfacing and automation. - Knowledge of electrical power distribution and cooling system principles. - Strong project management and data analysis skills. Pay and perks: - Hourly pay ranging from $35 to $55 per hour. - Weekly $500 housing and relocation stipend provided. ## Posting Location: San Jose, California, United States Employment type: Internship ### About the role We are looking for a Lab Strategy Engineer Intern to support the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems that power silicon bring-up, validation, and hardware-engineering labs. This is a hands-on role spanning lab-facility planning, infrastructure analysis, project coordination, and executive reporting. You will help track power, cooling, bench and rack utilization across multiple labs and support infrastructure planning for next-generation products, high-density AI/GPU racks, and thermal-validation equipment. You will collaborate with engineering, facilities, finance, procurement, and other partners to help labs meet demanding power, cooling, space, and operational requirements. ### What you’ll do - Perform three-phase power calculations for 208V and 480V systems and help analyze power requirements across lab spaces. - Monitor power supply and distribution across labs, identify capacity or utilization gaps, and support clear reporting of findings. - Track cooling capacity, including tons of cooling, and support planning for HVAC, CRAC, chilled-water loops, and liquid-cooling infrastructure such as cooling distribution units (CDUs). - Analyze bench and rack utilization across multiple labs and prepare Excel analyses, dashboards, and executive summaries. - Support infrastructure planning for high-density AI/GPU racks, thermal-validation equipment, silicon bring-up, and hardware-engineering lab environments. - Coordinate lab build-out, equipment-procurement, and facility-expansion activities by tracking requirements, owners, timelines, dependencies, and open issues. - Collaborate with engineering organizations, facilities, finance, procurement, and other stakeholders to align lab designs with power, cooling, space, safety, and product-validation needs. - Support sensor interfacing and infrastructure automation using basic C programming and other approved technical approaches. - Help document infrastructure assumptions, calculations, decisions, project status, and recommended next steps. - Identify risks, constraints, and opportunities to improve lab capacity planning, utilization, reporting, and repeatable project workflows. - Own a defined internship project with mentor support, provide progress updates, and present the project’s findings, documentation, and recommendations at the end of the internship. ### What you bring - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering; new graduates or candidates with up to one year of experience may be considered. - Proficiency in basic C programming for sensor interfacing and automation. - Strong knowledge of electrical power distribution and electrical calculations. - Working understanding of air-conditioning principles and liquid cooling in laboratory or data-center environments. - Strong attention to detail and ability to analyze data using Excel, dashboards, and executive summaries. - Foundational project-management skills and ability to coordinate across engineering, facilities, finance, procurement, and other teams. - Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical findings clearly to engineering and executive audiences. - Ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain accurate documentation, follow through on commitments, and adapt when project scope or priorities change. - A safety-conscious, collaborative, learning-oriented approach and sound judgment in a hands-on lab environment. ### Preferred qualifications - Familiarity with Oracle Fusion Cloud or other enterprise resource planning systems. - Exposure to building-management systems, facilities monitoring, or infrastructure controls. - Familiarity with electrostatic-discharge (ESD) protocols and safe practices in semiconductor or hardware-validation environments. - Experience or coursework related to semiconductor validation labs, data centers, high-density compute, thermal testing, or lab facilities. - Experience with dashboards, capacity planning, project tracking, or executive reporting. - Agentic AI programming skills or interest in applying AI to infrastructure monitoring, analysis, or automation. ### Equal opportunity Astera Labs is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage anyone with relevant experience to apply. ### 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 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. From Astera Labs's public posting, laid out for reading by newgrad.ai with the wording unchanged. Check the original before you apply. --- More new-grad and intern roles: https://newgrad.ai/llms.txt