--- title: 'Global Supply Manager MBA Spring Intern (Austin) at Exowatt' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/global-supply-manager-mba-spring-intern-austin-exowatt-austin-ayxapx48mfg7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-02' --- # Global Supply Manager MBA Spring Intern (Austin) at Exowatt - **Company:** Exowatt - **Location:** Austin, TX - **Employment:** internship - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/exowatt/67ec6647-9714-465f-9d47-7b40a31f5f77 ## Job description Exowatt is revolutionizing the energy landscape for the AI era with our groundbreaking P3 system that captures solar energy, stores it as heat, and generates electricity on demand. Founded in 2023 and backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Felicis, we're committed to providing clean, modular, and scalable power that meets the rapidly growing demands of AI infrastructure. Our mission is to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free, enabling technological advancement while protecting our planet. We're looking for a Global Supply Manager MBA Intern to join our Supply Chain & Manufacturing team in Austin for the Spring 2027 term, January 12 to April 16, 2027. You'll work alongside our Global Supply Managers on the commercial side of building P3: choosing contract manufacturers and suppliers, negotiating cost, planning supply and managing risk as we move from first units toward volume production. This is a strategic internship with real stakes. You'll own a sourcing project from analysis to recommendation, sit in on supplier negotiations, and present your findings to Supply Chain & Manufacturing leadership. This role is in-person at our Austin facility. ## What you'll do - Build sourcing strategy. Analyze spend, supplier capabilities and market options for key P3 components and contract manufacturing, and recommend where and how we should source. - Support negotiations. Build should-cost models and cost breakdowns, prepare negotiation plans, and join supplier and contract manufacturer negotiations. - Plan supply. Help turn production schedules and forecasts into supply plans so materials and components arrive in time for builds and product launches. - Reduce risk. Map single-source and long-lead parts, assess supplier risk, and develop dual-sourcing, safety stock and contingency options. - Drive cost reduction. Identify savings through value engineering, design-for-cost ideas, volume strategy and process improvements, working with our engineers. - Measure suppliers. Build supplier scorecards and reporting that track quality, delivery and cost performance. - See the hardware. Spend time on the factory floor and in the lab with the parts, tooling and fixtures you're sourcing, to understand what makes them buildable and what drives their cost. - Present your work. Deliver a final recommendation to Supply Chain & Manufacturing leadership in April. ## What you'll bring - Currently enrolled in an MBA program, with a focus or strong interest in operations, supply chain or strategy. - Available to work on site at our Austin, TX facility from January 12 to April 16, 2027. - 2+ years of work experience before your MBA, ideally in supply chain, procurement, operations, engineering, manufacturing or consulting. - Strong analytical and financial modeling skills: you can build a cost model, test the assumptions and explain what it means. - Clear, concise communication with senior leaders, engineers and suppliers. - A bias toward action: you drive issues to resolution and are comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-growing company. ## Nice to have - An undergraduate degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial or another engineering discipline. - Experience with contract manufacturers, strategic sourcing or supplier negotiations. - Exposure to hardware product development, from prototype to production. - Experience in energy, automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment or electronics manufacturing. - Familiarity with ERP systems, total cost of ownership analysis or Incoterms. ## About Exowatt ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Exowatt designs and manufactures modular, full-stack solar energy systems that capture solar energy, store it as heat, and dispatch electricity on demand to power energy-intensive infrastructure like AI data centers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Miami, FL, USA - **Founded**: 2023 (implied by company narrative) - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed on the website or job postings ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy, Clean Technology, Energy Storage, AI Infrastructure. - **Target customers**: B2B — specifically AI data centers, high-performance computing (HPC) data centers, and utility-scale energy projects. They also target utility companies and industrial sites with high energy demands. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Our mission is to deliver ultra-low-cost, reliable power that fuels global AI infrastructure while protecting our planet" — as stated by the founders on their vision page. ## Products & Services - **Exowatt P3**: The flagship product, a "dispatchable solar" system. It is a modular, full-stack energy system that captures solar energy using custom optical lenses (Fresnel lenses), stores it as heat in a proprietary high-temperature sensible heat battery (long-duration energy storage), and converts it into electricity on demand via a proprietary heat engine. It is designed to provide up to 24 hours of dispatchable energy, essentially serving as a baseload power source. The system can be deployed behind the meter (BTM) to reduce interconnection wait times, and is built in the USA without rare earth minerals. - **Energy Optimization Software**: Integrated software platform for real-time monitoring, control, and automation of Exowatt P3 systems. Enables intelligent dispatch, integration with other energy assets (solar PV, wind, natural gas, grid), and participation in arbitrage and virtual power plants (VPPs). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $70 million Series A round announced on April 22, 2025 [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/faq). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named on the website (the funding announcement and Crunchbase profile are referenced but not detailed on the main site). The company claims a "Made in the USA" supply chain and mentions partnerships with utility companies and data center operators. - **Growth Signals**: - Raised a significant $70M Series A in early 2025, signaling strong investor confidence. - Actively hiring across multiple key engineering and leadership roles (Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Power Electronics) in two locations (Miami, FL and Austin, TX). - Targeting the rapidly expanding AI and HPC data center market, which has an enormous and growing demand for clean, dispatchable power. - Their product’s "Bring Your Own Power" (BYOP) capability directly addresses the critical bottleneck of long interconnection queues for new data centers, a major market pain point. ## Competitive Advantages - **Dispatchable Solar + Storage**: Unlike standard solar PV, Exowatt's system can provide 24/7 baseload power by storing solar energy as heat and generating electricity on demand, solving the intermittency problem of renewables. - **Expedited Time-to-Power**: The ability to deploy fully behind the meter allows customers to bypass lengthy utility interconnection queues, accelerating project timelines for energy-intensive facilities like data centers. - **No Rare Earth Minerals**: The system is built with abundant, domestically sourced materials, avoiding supply chain vulnerabilities and environmental concerns associated with rare earth mining. - **Modular & Scalable**: Factory-built modules allow for linear scaling, enabling customers to start small and expand capacity as their energy needs grow. - **30-Year Lifespan**: Designed for low maintenance and a 30-year operational life, providing long-term reliability. ## Strategic Focus - **Targeting the AI Energy Boom**: Exowatt is squarely focused on providing clean, reliable, and rapidly deployable power to solve the massive energy demands of AI and HPC data centers. - **U.S. Manufacturing & Energy Independence**: The company is prioritizing domestic manufacturing to ensure quality, supply chain security, and alignment with national energy independence goals. - **Scaling Rapidly to Meet Demand**: With a $70M Series A, the focus is likely on scaling manufacturing, building out their deployment pipeline with initial customers, and expanding the engineering team to accelerate product development and deployment. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Mission**: The opportunity to work on a critical technology that directly enables the AI revolution by solving its most fundamental constraint: sustainable, scalable power. - **High-Performance Team**: The company describes itself as a "high-performance team of engineers, scientists, and builders pushing the boundaries of what’s possible," indicating a fast-paced, ambitious environment. - **On-Site Engineering Roles**: The posted positions (Electrical Engineer, Lead Mechanical Engineer, Lead Controls & Firmware Engineer) are full-time and on-site in either **Miami, FL** or **Austin, TX**. No remote or hybrid options are visible in current job listings. - **Competitive Benefits**: Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, flexible PTO, and team-wide equity [exowatt.com/careers](https://www.exowatt.com/careers). - **Small, Fast-Moving Company**: With a Series A funding, this is an early-stage company, offering roles with high ownership, influence, and the chance to build foundational systems. ## Sources 1. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/?gad_campaignid=21982037242) 2. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/faq) 3. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/vision) 4. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/careers) 5. 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