Strategic Finance Intern
Bright Machines
Strategic Finance Intern
Bright Machines
Software-defined microfactories automate precision assembly
Salary Range: 40 to 45 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-hour-wage)
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.
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.
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
Currently pursuing an MBA
A background in FP&A, investment banking, or consulting
Strong financial modeling instincts
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Software-defined microfactories automate precision assembly
Bright Machines provides intelligent automation for the manufacturing industry, focusing on electronic assembly. Its Microfactory is a software-defined production line that combines hardware and cloud-based software to automate high-precision, repetitive tasks, allowing plants to scale output, cut labor costs, and adapt quickly to demand changes. It differentiates itself by tightly integrating software with hardware in a single system, emphasizing software-defined control to improve scalability, flexibility, and total cost of ownership across electronics, automotive, and medical devices. The company's goal is to help manufacturers become more efficient, reduce costs, and stay agile in a changing global market.
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