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title: 'Strategic Finance Intern at Bright Machines'
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# Strategic Finance Intern at Bright Machines

- **Company:** Bright Machines
- **Location:** Burlingame, CA
- **Compensation:** $40–$45/hr
- **Employment:** part-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/brightmachines/2b3e6083-1051-4c4f-a10c-f1e765b4758e

## Job description

## RETHINK MANUFACTURING

The only way to ignite change is to build the best team. At Bright Machines®, we’re innovators and experts in our craft who have joined together to manufacture the AI and data center infrastructure at the edge. We believe unifying software, intelligent automation, and data is the answer to delivering quality and flexibility at scale. We deliver products to meet the demands of today while continuously investing in our Bright Factory model to take advantage of what comes next. Working with us means you’ll have the opportunity to make lasting, impactful changes for our company and our customers. If you’re ready to apply your exceptional skills to a brighter way of manufacturing AI infrastructure, we’d love to speak with you.

## 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.

## About Bright Machines

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A next-generation manufacturer leveraging robotics and AI to transform how the world designs and builds products. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/)
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; raised $437M total funding, led by BlackRock) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-machines)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-machines)
- **Founded**: 2018 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-machines)
- **Founders**: Lior Susan, Sviat Dulianinov (CEO) [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/about/)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Manufacturing, AI infrastructure, data center hardware, industrial automation & robotics.
- **Target customers**: Hyperscalers (cloud providers), data center operators, enterprises needing high-performance AI servers/storage. B2B primarily.
- **Mission/purpose**: “Transform how products are designed and built across simulation, automation and data.” [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/about/)

## Products & Services
- **Bright Factory** – Fully integrated assembly facility for data center infrastructure, combining robotics, AI, and end-to-end data traceability. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/)
- **Virtual Product Development** – Simulation and digital twins to design and validate products before production. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/)
- **AI-Enabled Robotics** – Physical AI systems with micron-level precision that sense, decide, and self-correct in real time. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/)
- **Factory Intelligence** – Software platform that connects and orchestrates data across systems for real-time visibility and continuous optimization. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/)
- **Bright Robotic Cells (BRC)** – Modular, programmable robotics cells deployed in 130+ Microfactories worldwide. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/about/)
- **Hybrid BRC** – Combines robotic automation with operator-assisted assembly while maintaining full traceability.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (most recent Series C in June 2024 raised $106M).
- **Key Metric**: Estimated annual revenue of **$83M** (per LinkedIn) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-machines); total funding **$437M** (including $20M debt from J.P. Morgan in 2024). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-machines)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors – BlackRock (lead Series C), Eclipse Capital (lead Series A & B), J.P. Morgan (debt). Strategic partners – NVIDIA, Microsoft. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/about/)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Deployed 130+ Microfactories globally.
  - Headcount of ~203 (3.1% YoY growth).
  - Expanded focus on AI infrastructure manufacturing for hyperscalers.
  - Entered partnership with NVIDIA and Microsoft for automation tech stack.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack integration**: Combines hardware (robotics, assembly lines), software (Brightware platform, digital twins), and AI (self-correcting physical systems) in one end-to-end solution.
- **Micron-level precision & real-time adaptation**: Physical AI systems that sense, decide, and self-correct during production.
- **Strategic partnerships with NVIDIA & Microsoft**, embedding their tech into the next-gen manufacturing stack.
- **“Bright Factory” model collapses time to revenue** for hyperscalers needing rapid, scalable production of AI infrastructure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priority**: Scale the Bright Factory model to serve hyperscalers building AI data centers, reducing silicon-to-revenue timelines and total production costs.
- **Direction**: Expand beyond data center infrastructure into adjacent high-value manufacturing, continue investing in Physical AI, and deepen the software layer (factory intelligence, traceability).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-led organization focused on integrity, collaboration (“Win Together”), customer obsession, and empowerment (“Be The Change”). [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/careers/)
- **Work policy**: Not explicitly stated; offices in San Francisco (HQ), and three other US locations. Roles likely hybrid/on-site given manufacturing nature, but engineering roles may offer flexibility. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-machines)
- **Benefits**:
  - Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  - Professional growth (classes, conferences, leadership training, internal mobility)
  - Competitive compensation, stock options, 401k match (US) or long-term savings plan
  - Generous vacation time and paid parental leave
  - Employee assistance program (mental health, financial wellness)
  - Team events and volunteer opportunities. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/careers/)
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on robotics, computer vision, automation, and software; open positions include Robot Perception, Software Quality, Automation Controls, and Service Integration Engineers. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/brightmachines)

## Sources
1. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/) – Home page
2. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/about/) – About page
3. [brightmachines.com](https://www.brightmachines.com/careers/) – Careers page
4. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/brightmachines) – Open roles (Lever)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-machines) – LinkedIn company profile

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