Senior Product Engineer

Astera Labs • San Jose, CA

1d • $135,000 - $165,000

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. Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Product Engineer to lead and develop next generation high-speed, high performance and low power semiconductor products in advanced process node. The ideal candidate possesses breadth of industry experience in high-speed product development in the field of product and/or test engineering, can apply fundamentals in circuit, ATE, and test program to aid problem solving, and is a self-driven, result focused go-getter in the pursuit of goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the field of post silicon product development dealing with high-speed XCVR (product, test or validation)
• Experience in working with PCIe Gen3 and above
• Have gone through at least one cycle of full product development life cycle
• Strong academic/technical background in electrical or computer engineering; Bachelor’s is required
• Strong problem-solving skills that involve system level analysis with test hardware, test program and DUT.
• Digital and analog circuit level understanding for DUT.
• Excellent team player with great communication skills
• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks
• Hands on experience with using the Advantest 93k ATE platform
• Hands-on knowledge of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes protocols like PCIe (Gen3 and above), Ethernet (25G and above), etc. and/or memory interfaces such as (LP)DDR5/4.
• Strong data analysis skills using tools such as JMP or Spotfire

Nice To Haves

• MS degree preferred
• Working with silicon validation teams to ensure device performance meets production requirements.
• Firmware development in C/C++, scripting in Python, or other equivalent programming experience.
• Hands on experience in product/package qualification

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop next generation high-speed, high performance and low power semiconductor products in advanced process node.
• Apply fundamentals in circuit, ATE, and test program to aid problem solving.
• Update ATE test programs for wafer sort and final test solutions.
• Monitor device ATE test yields, ATE test time, device quality and roll out new ATE test programs using consistent BKMs.
• Perform detailed data analysis using tools such as JMP or Spotfire calculating limits and drawing conclusions.
• Meet the demands of shipping quality parts to Astera Labs’ customers through the manufacturing stage of development.
• Ensure device performance meets production requirements (in collaboration with silicon validation teams).
• Conduct product/package qualification.

Benefits

• The base salary range is USD 135,00 - USD 165,000. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior