MBA Intern - Wireless/Electronics for Autonomy

Job Title: MBA Internship - Wireless/Electronics for Autonomy

Location: Boston, MA (On-site or hybrid)

Starting: January 2025

Hours: Up to 20 hours per week

Number of Positions: 2

About Us: In today's rapidly evolving economy, innovations in Artificial Intelligence and automation are driving profound changes in society. Aura is at the forefront of this transformation, delivering spatial intelligence at the edge to enable autonomous navigation on the ground, in the air, and even in space. We're pioneering next-generation wireless technology that combines high-resolution spatial sensing with high-speed communications tailored for autonomous vehicles.

Our innovative platform provides a unified millimeter wave front-end, software-defined baseband for sensing and communication, and machine-learning-based sensor data processing, all in a single compact solution. Capable of real-time processing across 32 GHz of spectrum, Aura's technology is designed for demanding applications in automotive, robotics, and industrial automation.

Our team comprises entrepreneurs, creators, and innovators from leading corporate labs, open innovations, and successful startups. With a track record of turning mathematical breakthroughs into large scale commercial success, our past innovations include formulation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging, Smart LTE networks (Winner of MWC CTO's Choice Award, 2013), virtualized 5G systems (Winner of MWC CTO's Choice Award, 2017), SiriusXM satellite radio system, HDTV, and HDMI.

Based in Boston, the global hub for robotics and AI, Aura is redefining radar. Our advanced radar solution was developed through years of dedicated R&D with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) in cooperation with MIT Lincoln Laboratory. With an advisory board of academic pioneers and industry leaders in electromagnetics, radar imaging, and semiconductors, Aura has unique expertise to transform wireless technology for autonomy. We're proud to be commercializing this cutting-edge technology for autonomous vehicles, working closely with top industry customers and partners to bring our vision to life.

Position Overview: Aura is seeking motivated business interns to join our team and contribute to our mission of transforming autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, and AR/VR. The ideal candidate has passion for technology-driven change, thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, and has a background or interest in the wireless systems and the semiconductor industries.

As an intern, you'll collaborate closely with Aura's leadership team, gaining hands-on experience in commercialization strategy, business case analysis and modeling, strategic partnerships, operations, marketing, and communications. You'll play an active role in business development and engagement with key customers in the automotive and industrial sectors, building both professional and collaborative skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Areas of business: Automotive, autonomous robots, wireless service, and enterprise businesses

• Create actionable market landscapes in selected key priority vertical verticals

• Perform bottom-up market size analysis of key priority areas

• Perform value chain and channel partnership analysis for strategic partnership

• Customer engagement: Identify pain points and help identify customer value proposition through customer interviews and customer engagement

• Help define business strategy, go-to-market strategy planning

• Assist leadership team in preparing materials for corporate strategy meetings and customer meetings including presentations, reports, data analysis, briefings

• Travel: Up to 10% of travel to trade shows and customer sites may be required

• Develop a 5-year business model based on the selected priority verticals

• Perform competitive analysis and build a valuation tool

• Create marketing collaterals - White paper, business cases, blog posts

• Develop polished, story-driven PowerPoint presentations summarizing key takeaways

• Government business development and proposal preparation

Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a full-time MBA program with a graduation date of 2026. (Massachusetts residents preferred)

• 3-5 years of prior experience in corporate business functions in strategy, operations, marketing, product management in technology or semiconductor industry

• Expertise in the relevant field such as corporate development, business development, finance, or management consulting

• Knowledge and passion for digital technology in mobility and industrial markets

• A strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and a fast learner

• Self-motivated, independent person

• Strong grasp of business concepts and strategy framework

• Proficient in PowerPoint, with a good eye for data-based analytics, visualization and storytelling

• Excellent verbal and written communications, and comfortable interacting with senior leaders and global leading customers

• Well organized and ability to work independently

• A winning attitude with a strong sense of ownership and accountability

• A strong interest in delivering value in automotive, industrial automation, and consumer AR/VR

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in semiconductor for industry verticals (Mobile, Automotive, IoT, AR/VR)
• Experience in venture capital and startup is a plus

Compensation and Benefits:

• Challenged with real-world projects with enterprise customers
• Mentorship from experienced professionals in the field and industry leaders
• Opportunities to learn and grow in a cutting-edge industry and exposure to global customers and partners
• Competitive hourly compensation
• Potential future employment opportunities

How to Apply: Interested candidates should submit their resume detailing their relevant experience and skills, and any pertinent project work. Applications can be sent to *** with the subject line "MBA Internship - Wireless / Semiconductor Business"

Application Deadline: Spring 2025

'If you're ready to bring your passion and skills to our team, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit your application. Join us in making a difference, one at a time."

(Apply early for full consideration as decisions will be made on a rolling basis.)