Strategic Finance Intern

Bright Machines

~$57,859 - $107,453Market Estimate

Burlingame, California

Full-Time

Entry (0-2 yrs)

Finance & Accounting

Internship

Posted on October 16, 2026

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Strategic Finance Intern, you’ll work closely with Bright Machines’ finance team and senior leaders to turn financial and market data into decisions that support the company’s growth. You’ll contribute to investment analysis, forecasting, performance reporting, and investor relations while exploring practical ways to use AI to improve finance workflows. This is a hands-on opportunity to take on meaningful strategic projects and see how finance helps guide a fast-growing manufacturing business.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Investment & ROI analysis. Build the business cases behind major spend decisions — capex, new initiatives, and resourcing bets — quantifying the returns and trade-offs so leadership can decide with confidence.

Competitive & market analysis. Size the market, track competitors and comparable companies, and translate the findings into sharper pricing and a more compelling story for investors and leadership.

AI-driven finance innovation. Use AI to make our finance, strategic finance, and investor relations processes faster and better — building apps, skills, and workflows that the whole team can use.

Cash forecasting. Partner with key stakeholders and department heads across the business — including the head of operations and senior leadership — to manage capex inflows and outflows and understand the project timelines that drive our cash position.

Management reporting & insights. Help leadership decide which KPIs matter most to track, then dig into those results — along with revenue, margins, and spend — and present the findings and recommendations directly.

Investor relations. Help refine and maintain our investor financial model and shape the investor story — proving out our growth, margin trajectory, and unit economics with the numbers. Contribute to investor-facing materials and support ongoing investor communications.

Strategic projects. Identify where the business needs help and propose the projects to go after it, working with senior leadership and partnering cross-functionally across the company to drive real improvements.

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN

Hands-on experience at a company at a pivotal growth stage

Direct work with senior leadership and partnership with stakeholders across the company

Practical experience applying AI to real finance and investor relations work

Experience working inside a next-generation manufacturing company shaping AI infrastructure

WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

Currently pursuing an MBA

A background in FP&A, investment banking, or consulting

Strong financial modeling instincts

BE EMPOWERED TO CHANGE AN INDUSTRY

Bright Machines is a next-generation, AI-enabled manufacturer focused on data center infrastructure production. Bright Machines uses its proprietary AI-based robotics and software to assemble AI infrastructure hardware products (i.e., data center servers) for hyperscalers, neoclouds, and leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to reduce their time to revenue. With its Bright Factory model, Bright Machines builds higher quality data center infrastructure at scale, addresses increasing market demands for computing power due to the surge of AI, and answers the call to the U.S. national mandate to reshore manufacturing.

Bright Machines is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and has an integration center in Guadalajara, Mexico. The company has been recognized as one of Forbes’ AI 50, awarded “Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing” by AI Breakthrough, named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and highlighted by several other leading technology and innovation organizations.

BE EMPOWERED TO CHANGE AN INDUSTRY

Bright Machines is a next-generation, AI-enabled manufacturer focused on data center infrastructure production. Bright Machines uses its proprietary AI-based robotics and software to assemble AI infrastructure hardware products (i.e., data center servers) for hyperscalers, neoclouds, and leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to reduce their time to revenue. With its Bright Factory model, Bright Machines builds higher quality data center infrastructure at scale, addresses increasing market demands for computing power due to the surge of AI, and answers the call to the U.S. national mandate to reshore manufacturing.

Bright Machines is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and has an integration center in Guadalajara, Mexico. The company has been recognized as one of Forbes’ AI 50, awarded “Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing” by AI Breakthrough, named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and highlighted by several other leading technology and innovation organizations.