Technical Lead Product Engineer

Astera Labs • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Technical Lead 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 5 years of experience in the field of post silicon product development dealing with high-speed XCVR (product, test or validation)
• Experience in working with RF testing and characterization
• Knowledge of spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers (VNA), and other RF test equipment
• 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; MS preferred
• 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
• Detail-oriented monitoring of device ATE test yields, ATE test time, device quality and rolling out new ATE test programs using consistent BKMs
• Experience with RF calibration techniques and de-embedding methodologies
• Experience with RF parameter measurements including S-parameters, insertion loss, return loss, and signal integrity analysis
• Hands-on work with Advantest 93k ATE platform (SmartScale/ExaScale) including test program updates for wafer sort and final test solutions
• Strong data analysis skills using tools such as JMP or Spotfire calculating limits and drawing conclusions
• Energetic work mindset to meet the demands of shipping quality parts to Astera Labs’ customers through the manufacturing stage of development

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on product/package qualification
• Partnering with Fabs on process development and yield improvement initiatives
• Collaboration with silicon validation teams to ensure device performance meets production requirements
• Firmware development in C/C++, scripting in Python, or other equivalent programming languages

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees