Technical Program Manager Intern, Hardware Engineering

Lunar Energy; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Lunar Energy in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager Intern for the Hardware Engineering team to help bring up testing, validation, and regulatory work from concept through production.

You will collaborate with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and external partners while learning how to align schedules, manage risks, and communicate clearly in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a BS or MS in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Industrial, or related engineering.
• You’re passionate about accelerating renewables and improving energy infrastructure.
• Prior internship, co‑op, or project experience in an engineering or technical environment is a plus.
• You communicate clearly, ask good questions, and follow up until things are resolved.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy collaborating across teams in a fast-moving startup.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or Excel is a plus, but not required — we’ll teach you.
• This is a full-time, on-site internship based in Mountain View, CA.

Responsibilities

• Support program schedules by tracking milestones, flagging risks, and communicating progress across teams.
• Help build and maintain validation roadmaps, timelines, and deliverable trackers and resource requirements.
• Sit in on test and certification reviews, capture action items, and drive closure with ownership.
• Coordinate ordering, shipment, and delivery of prototype validation builds and track variation effects.
• Pull together clear, executive-ready status updates summarizing risk and progress.
• Learn how program management drives a hardware product from concept through production.

Skills

Clear communication

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Adaptability

Education

BS or MS in engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Smartsheet

Excel

Job description

Technical Program Manager Intern, Hardware Engineering

Mountain View, CA

Program Managers (PMs) at Lunar Energy lead complex engineering programs from initial concept through to volume manufacturing. As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) Intern on the Hardware Engineering team, you'll get hands‑on experience supporting our products through bring‑up testing, environmental and durability validation, failure analysis, and regulatory certification. You'll work closely with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and external partners, learning how a global team aligns around schedules, risk, and clear communication to ship reliable hardware. We're looking for someone who's excited about a more sustainable future and wants to see, firsthand, what it takes to bring that vision to market.

Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast‑growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

On a given day at Lunar, you’ll likely:

• Support program schedules by tracking milestones, flagging risks, and helping communicate progress across the engineering, reliability, test, and compliance teams.
• Help build and maintain validation roadmaps, timelines, and deliverable trackers, and learn to define and track resource requirements alongside senior TPMs.
• Sit in on test and certification reviews, capture action items, and follow up to make sure issues are driven to closure with clear ownership.
• Help coordinate the ordering, shipment, and delivery of prototype validation builds, and track how build‑to‑build variation affects downstream test and compliance work.
• Pull together clear, executive‑ready status updates that summarize risk, progress, and next steps for a program.
• Learn firsthand how program management drives a hardware product from concept through production, and how engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams work together to get there.

About you

• You're currently pursuing a BS or MS in an engineering discipline (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Industrial, or related).
• You're passionate about accelerating the adoption of renewables and improving our energy infrastructure, and you're excited to learn how ambitious program plans actually get executed.
• Prior internship, co‑op, or project experience in an engineering or technical environment (e.g., a lab, a formula/Solar/Baja or other collegiate design team, or a research group) is a plus.
• You communicate clearly, ask good questions, and follow up until things are resolved.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy collaborating across teams and levels in a fast‑moving startup environment.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or Excel is a plus, but not required — we’ll teach you.
• This is a full‑time, on‑site internship based in Mountain View, CA,

Our DE&I Philosophy:

Lunar Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent by supporting an inclusive workplace. Lunar recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law.

Our Compensation Philosophy:

Our goal is to ensure that all Lunar Energy employees are fairly compensated. Please note that the hourly range information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position provided pursuant to the Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act for California applicants. The hourly range estimate for this position depending on level of experience is $30-$40 USD

The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package will be at the company’s sole discretion, and determined by factors including but not limited to years of experience, job level, geographical location, and other relevant business considerations. The company also reserves the right to amend or modify this job description, employee perks, and benefits at any time.