Astera Labs
Performance Engineering Intern
San Jose, CA +1 · Internship · Posted Sep 7, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
California - Education
- Coursework, projects, research, or hands-on experience in a related field; no degree requirement stated.
About the job
Supports performance engineering by benchmarking AI and data-center systems, analyzing results and bottlenecks, and recommending improvements.
What you'll do
- Design and run reproducible performance experiments across hardware, software, workloads, and operating conditions.
- Analyze metrics and system evidence to identify bottlenecks, regressions, and root causes.
- Automate testing and analysis, document results, and present project findings.
What they ask for
- Coursework, projects, research, or hands-on experience in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, data science, or a related field.
- Foundational understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, networks, memory systems, GPUs, storage, or distributed systems.
- Programming or scripting experience in Python, C/C++, Bash, or another language used for automation and data analysis.
- Comfort working in Linux and using command-line tools, configuration files, logs, and source control.
Nice to have
- Experience with benchmarking, profiling, performance modeling, workload characterization, or system-level debugging.
- Experience with performance tools such as MLPerf, FIO, Intel Memory Latency Checker, Linux perf, Nsight, NCCL, or SPEC.
Pay
$35/hour to $55/hour USD base hourly pay; $500-per-week USD housing/relocation stipend
Tools
Python, C/C++, Bash, Linux, MLPerf, FIO, Intel Memory Latency Checker, Linux perf
AI focus
Measures and analyzes performance across AI workloads, including inference, and systems supporting AI infrastructure.
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