Responsibilities
- Support design-in of Astera Labs’ portfolio of connectivity products by cloud service providers and server and network OEMs.
- Provide technical guidance to customers to overcome design challenges.
- Generate collateral for existing and new products.
- Drive innovation by providing insightful feedback to internal teams to improve products and processes.
- Investigate and duplicate issues reported by customers.
- Drive critical issues to resolution.
- Support key customers directly.
- Work in the lab to address challenges associated with leading edge semiconductor products.
Requirements
- 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 master’s degree is preferred.
- 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. Think and act with the customer in mind!
- 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
- 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.
