Astera Labs is hiring a Product Applications Engineer to support leading cloud service providers and server/network OEMs in designing our connectivity products into their systems. You will provide crucial technical guidance, generate product collateral, and drive innovation by feeding insights back to our internal teams.
What You'll Do
- Provide technical guidance to customers to overcome design challenges.
- Generate collateral for existing and new products.
- Drive innovation by providing insightful feedback to other internal teams to continuously improve products and processes.
- Investigate and duplicate issues reported by customers and drive critical issues to resolution.
- Support key customers directly.
- Dive deep in the lab to address challenges associated with leading-edge semiconductor products.
What We're Looking For
- A strong academic and technical background in electrical, electronics, or computer engineering or a closely related field. At a minimum, an engineering bachelor’s degree is required.
- A minimum of 12 years’ experience working with cloud service providers or server or network OEM customers to design in complex SoC/silicon products for server, storage, and/or networking applications.
- Entrepreneurial spirit, open-minded approach, and can-do attitude.
- Silicon/system bring-up and debug experience in customer systems.
- Strong knowledge of embedded FW development and in-system debug.
- Firmware development with C-language, scripting with Python or other equivalent programming languages.
- Strong knowledge of PCIe protocol, including LTSSM, EQ, DMA, etc.
- Strong knowledge of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes level debugging (TX/RX Equalization) in PCIe, Ethernet (25G and above), etc.
- Firsthand experience with lab equipment including traffic generators, analyzers, and high-speed oscilloscopes.
- Broad knowledge of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes-based protocols such as PCIe or Ethernet (25G and above).
- Understanding of Data Center systems such as servers, compute nodes, JBOGs/JBODs, and networking switches/routers/interconnects, etc.
- Technical writing skills and the ability to generate clear, precise documentation including datasheets, application notes, and similar guides for both internal audiences and customers.
Nice to Have
- A master’s degree is preferred.
- Broad knowledge of signal processing and ECC coding for communications.
- Device driver development.
- Development/support for PCIe or Ethernet switch products.
- Working with silicon characterization/validation teams to ensure desired device performance is readily achievable in customer systems.
- Knowledge of simulation/modeling, schematic capture, and PCB layout tools from Cadence, Altium and others.
- Knowledge of simulation tools such as Keysight ADS, SiSoft QCD, and others, for IBIS-AMI analysis.
- A strong background in high-speed board design and techniques for preserving signal integrity.
Technical Stack
- C
- Python
- PCIe
- Ethernet
- Cadence
- Altium
- Keysight ADS
- SiSoft QCD
Work Mode
This is a global role open to candidates in California’s Silicon Valley, Texas, Taiwan, China, Canada, and Israel.
Astera Labs encourages creativity and innovation through diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences.
