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Astera Labs · 2 days ago

Principal Product Applications Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$160K/yr - $240K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Provide technical guidance to customers to address design challenges.

Generate collateral for existing and new products.

Drive innovation by offering insightful feedback to internal teams for product and process improvement.

Support the development and design of semiconductor products for PCIe/CXL.

Work directly with key customers and address challenges in leading-edge semiconductor products.

Qualification

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SoC designPCIe interfaceLTSSMDebuggingSilicon/System bring-upIssue resolutionFAE supportLab equipment operationTechnical writingProblem-solvingEntrepreneurial mindsetCustomer-orientedCommunicationPCIeEthernet SwitchRetimerCompliance TestingFirmware DevelopmentC-languagePythonScriptingData Center SystemsServersJBOGsJBODsSwitchesRoutersInterconnects

Required

Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE is required, Master’s is preferred.

Minimum of 10 years’ experience designing in complex SoC/silicon products with a high speed (preferably PCIe) interface.

Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind!

Strong working knowledge of PCIe LTSSM at a physical layer level, associated standards, and debug. Most recent experience with PCIe 4.0 at a minimum, some experience with 5.0/CXL preferred.

Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems.

Technical ownership of issue resolution: Driving and directing internal teams, and driving communication to customers through FAE and sales teams.

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.

Preferred

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.

Company

Astera Labs

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

Founded in 2017

Santa Clara, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.asteralabs.com

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