Platform Software/Diagnostics (Intern 2026)

Astera Labs Early Career • San Jose, CA

7d

About The Position

As member of Astera Labs Hardware Engineering team you will be responsible for building diagnostics and manufacturing software to allow design, test, and manufacture cutting edge high speed datacenter products. You will be working on project from conception to the final production stage at contract manufacturer. The role requires strong and broad software background and good understanding of hardware design and manufacturing practices. At the same time we welcome candidates with deep experience in smaller areas and desire to learn. Depending on your experience you may be focusing on design/validation or automation/manufacturing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in CS/CE or equivalent experience.
• Experience in subset of diag, hardware bring-up, test or manufacturing automation
• Knowledge of modern software development
• Proficiency in Python and C

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with datacenter-level complex electronic equipment bring-up/diagnostic/manufacturing
• Has knowledge of common interconnecting buses and interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, XAUI, 10G Ethernet drivers, FPGA, Switch chips, SSL offload, TCAM programming.
• Ability to read schematic/layout
• System debug experience
• Embedded programming and good knowledge of OS internals (Linux/Unix)

Responsibilities

• Design, implement & test production-grade diagnostics for high-speed digital boards and ASICS to help with hardware validation
• Design, implement & test manufacturing tests to validate mass production of digital boards used in data center networking product
• Bring-up newly manufactured boards and the 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 review, and project management

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees