Principal Product Applications Engineer

Astera Labs • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

As an Astera Labs Product Applications Engineer, you will be part of a team that supports design-in of Astera Labs’ portfolio of connectivity products by the world’s leading cloud service providers and server and network OEMs. In this role, you will need to provide technical guidance to customers to overcome design challenges, generate collateral for existing and new products, and drive innovation by providing insightful feedback to other internal teams to continuously improve products and processes. You will investigate and duplicate issues reported by customers, and drive critical issues to resolution. There are opportunities to support key customers directly, and also to dive deep in the lab to address the challenges associated with leading edge semiconductor products.

Requirements

• Strong academic and technical background in electrical, electronics, or computer engineering or a closely related field.
• A minimum of 12 years’ experience working with cloud service providers or server or network OEM customers.
• 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 NRZ/PAM4 SerDes-based protocols like PCIe, Ethernet (25G and above), etc.
• Understanding of Data Center systems such as servers, compute nodes, JBOGs/JBODs, and networking switches/routers/interconnects.
• Technical writing skills and the ability to generate clear, precise documentation.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Investigate and duplicate issues reported by customers.
• Drive critical issues to resolution.
• Support key customers directly.
• Address challenges associated with leading edge semiconductor products in the lab.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees