Product Applications Engineer (NCG 2026, Aries)

Astera Labs Early Career•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI. Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity. The company’s custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements. As an Astera Labs Early Career Product Application Engineer, 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. 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 engineering.
Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude.
Think and act with the customer in mind!
Firsthand experience with lab equipment such as protocol analyzers/exercisers, high-speed oscilloscopes, or BERTs.
Technical writing skills to generate clear, precise documentation including application notes and similar guides for internal and customer-facing audiences.

Nice To Haves

Triaging complex customer reported issues which require taking into account multiple layers of conditions; for instance, silicon, firmware, hardware board design, and system environment.
Development/support for PCIe or Ethernet Switch or Retimer products.
PCIe compliance testing methodology and troubleshooting.
Comfort working with software/firmware associated with semiconductor products, such as; Firmware development with C-language, scripting with Python or other equivalent programming languages.
Understanding of Data Center systems like Servers, JBOGs/JBODs, Networking switches/routers/interconnects etc.

Responsibilities

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.
Support key customers directly.
Dive deep in the lab to address the challenges associated with leading edge semiconductor products.
Technical ownership of issue resolution.