Astera Labs is looking for a Senior Software Diagnostics Engineer to join our Hardware Engineering team. You will be responsible for building diagnostics and manufacturing software to allow design, test, and manufacture of our high-speed datacenter products, taking projects from conception to final production.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and test production-grade diagnostics for high-speed digital boards and ASICs to help with hardware validation.
- Design, implement, and test manufacturing tests to validate mass production of digital boards used in data center networking products.
- Bring-up newly manufactured boards and port the first level of software.
- Isolate and perform root-cause analysis of reported failures.
- Support new platform software and hardware features.
- Coordinate with the hardware engineering team on bring-up schedules and feature delivery.
- Participate proactively in design discussions, design reviews, and project management.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of modern software development.
- Proficiency in Python, C, or similar languages.
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, highly technical environment.
- 2+ years of experience in a subset of diagnostics, hardware bring-up, test, or manufacturing automation.
- Strong debugging skills across hardware, firmware, and system layers.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with datacenter-level complex electronic equipment bring-up, diagnostic, or manufacturing.
- Ability to read schematic and layout.
- System debug experience.
- Embedded programming and good knowledge of OS internals (Linux/Unix).
- Knowledge of common interconnecting buses and interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, XAUI, 10G Ethernet drivers, FPGA, Switch chips, SSL offload, TCAM programming.
- Experience with DDR5.
Technical Stack
- Python, C, Linux/Unix
Team & Environment
You will be working on the Hardware Engineering team, coordinating closely on bring-up schedules and feature delivery.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $120,000 - $195,000
We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.
