Communications Intern

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Job type: Internship
Work arrangement: In-person at Astera Labs’ San Jose headquarters

About Astera Labs & the Role

Astera Labs builds the connectivity technology that powers the organizations building, deploying, and scaling AI today. We’re growing fast, and we need someone who can help the world understand why that matters.

As a Communications Intern, you’ll work closely with our external communications team across design, earned media, owned media, and social, contributing wherever your strengths are most useful. This role is built for someone eager to hone the craft of turning dense, technical ideas into stories and materials that people want to engage with. Over time, the role will focus on the domain where you shine brightest.

Responsibilities

Day-to-day responsibilities may vary depending on candidate fit, but Communications Interns can expect exposure to the following:

• Help develop story pitches and liaise with industry analysts, journalists, podcasters, and content creators covering the AI infrastructure space.

• Contribute to brainstorming sessions for stories and campaigns across the website, social media, and external journalist and influencer engagement.

• Coordinate content-planning calendars, stakeholder inputs, and internal review cycles for stories in development.

• Assist with filming, photography, and multimedia production.

• Identify opportunities to repurpose existing stories across formats, including blog posts, social captions, and video scripts.

• Measure the performance of published stories and campaigns to help guide future work and best practices.

• Participate in briefings and calls with company leadership.

• Take ownership of assigned projects, communicate clearly, meet agreed timelines, and deliver work that creates visible value.

Qualifications

• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with a natural instinct for storytelling.

• Ability to project-manage multiple concurrent tasks while adhering to deadlines.

• Understanding of how content is consumed and shared across digital platforms, from short-form video to long-form thought leadership.

• Genuine curiosity about AI infrastructure and a drive to translate technical material into compelling, accessible narratives.

• Strong communication, critical-thinking, learning-agility, and project-management skills.

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree, or otherwise participating in a college or graduate internship program.

• Available to work in person at Astera Labs’ San Jose headquarters.

Preferred Qualifications

• Examples of storytelling you have created and shared publicly, such as a writing sample, Instagram Reel, video, design project, or other work that shows you have created something and shared it with the world.

• Prior experience translating technical material—especially in semiconductors—is preferred but not required. We’ll help you build that skill.

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience across design, earned media, owned media, and social.

• Direct exposure to company leadership through interview briefings, content production, and metrics-based report-outs.

• A portfolio of published work across multiple formats.

• Mentorship from an external communications team in a fast-growing company.

• Experience in the AI infrastructure industry and opportunities to establish professional connections within it.

• The chance to discover where your strengths shine brightest.

• Participation in Astera Labs’ Early Career programming, including technical and professional-development sessions, community events, and an end-of-program project presentation.

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 form $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.

How to Apply

Submit your resume along with links to or attachments of storytelling samples, including writing, video, design, or other work.

We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.