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Gigascale Capital
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Intern, Business Development Associate, Fall 2026/Winter 2027

Brief overview

Scotts Valley, CAIn-person
Inverter-based resourcesData centersArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingExcelPivot tables

About the company

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Gigascale Capital backs climate companies that make the clean option a no-brainer choice.

Job description

Summary

Gigascale Capital is focused on building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. As a Business Development Associate, you will support the BD team in building partnerships with energy and data center developers, conducting research, maintaining CRM data, and preparing customer engagement materials.

Responsibilities

  • Research and profile target accounts across solar, BESS, and data center markets
  • Maintain and enrich the CRM; keep pipeline data accurate and current
  • Track market developments; synthesize into usable intelligence
  • Prepare account briefings, meeting materials, and follow-ups
  • Help translate technical content into customer-facing collateral

Skills

  • Demonstrated experience or interest in inverter-based resources, data centers, AI, manufacturing, and/or energy
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative mindset, capable of influencing engineering, operations and executive teams
  • Self-starter with a bias for action, who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment, and is comfortable building from scratch
  • Proven problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail
  • Prior experience selling inverters, power electronics or new energy hardware products to first-of-a-kind deployments
  • Familiarity with utility-scale project development, procurement, and commissioning
  • Understanding of medium-voltage systems and applications in renewable energy or data centers

Qualifications

Must Haves

  • Demonstrated experience or interest in inverter-based resources, data centers, AI, manufacturing, and/or energy
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative mindset, capable of influencing engineering, operations and executive teams
  • Self-starter with a bias for action, who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment, and is comfortable building from scratch
  • Proven problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail

Nice to Haves

  • Prior experience selling inverters, power electronics or new energy hardware products to first-of-a-kind deployments
  • Familiarity with utility-scale project development, procurement, and commissioning
  • Understanding of medium-voltage systems and applications in renewable energy or data centers

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