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Astera Labs · 20 hours ago

Principal Diagnostic Platform Software Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$180K/yr - $225K/yr

Astera Labs is a company focused on building diagnostics and manufacturing software for high-speed data center products. The Principal Diagnostic Platform Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, testing, and implementing production-grade diagnostics and manufacturing tests for digital boards, while also collaborating with hardware engineering teams.

AutomotiveElectronicsIntelligent SystemsSemiconductor

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

George Clarke

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 products

Bring up newly manufactured boards and port the first level of software

Isolate and perform root-cause analysis of reported failure

Support new platform software and hardware feature

Coordinate with the hardware engineering team on bring-up schedules and feature deliver

Participate proactively in design discussions, design review, and project management

Work independently as well as in team roles, mentor younger team members

Qualification

Embedded programmingHardware design understandingSystem debug experienceLinux/Unix knowledgeData center equipment experienceMentoring skillsProject management

Required

Strong and broad software background

Good understanding of hardware design and manufacturing practices

Experience working with datacenter-level complex electronic equipment bring-up/diagnostic/manufacturing

Ability to read schematic/layout

System debug experience

Embedded programming

Good knowledge of OS internals (Linux/Unix)

Knowledge of common interconnecting buses and interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, XAUI, 10G Ethernet drivers, FPGA, Switch chips, SSL offload, and TCAM programming

Experience with DDR5

Company

Astera Labs

Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that provides connectivity solutions for intelligent systems.

Founded in 2017

San Jose, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.asteralabs.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (50)

2024 (44)

2023 (17)

2022 (26)

2021 (14)

2020 (7)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$206.35M

Key Investors

Fidelity

2024-03-20IPO

2022-11-17Series D· $150M

2021-09-27Series C· $50M

Leadership Team

Jitendra Mohan

CEO

Casey Morrison

Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder

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