Astera Labs Inc., a semiconductor company headquartered in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, is a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems throughout the data center. Partnering with leading processor vendors, cloud service providers, seasoned investors, and world-class manufacturing companies, Astera Labs is helping customers remove performance bottlenecks in data-intensive systems that are limiting the true potential of applications such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company’s product portfolio includes system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and services to enable robust CXL, PCIe, and Ethernet connectivity.
Job Description:
As member of Astera Labs Hardware Engineering team you will be responsible for building diagnostics and manufacturing software to allow design, test, and manufacture cutting edge high speed datacenter products. You will be working on project from conception to the final production stage at contract manufacturer.
The role requires strong and broad software background and good understanding of hardware design and manufacturing practices. At the same time we welcome candidates with deep experience in smaller areas and desire to learn. Depending on your experience you may be focusing on design/validation or automation/manufacturing.
Key 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 product
Bring-up newly manufactured boards and the port the first level of software.
Isolate and perform root-cause analysis of reported failures
Support new platform software and hardware features
Coordinate with the hardware engineering team on bring-up schedules and feature delivery
Participate proactively in design discussions, design review, and project management
Work independently as well as in team roles, mentor younger team members
Basic Qualifications/Required Experience
Bachelor’s in CS/CE or equivalent experience.
Experience in subset of diag, hardware bring-up, test or manufacturing automation
Knowledge of modern software development
Proficiency in Python
Preferred experience
Experience working with datacenter-level complex electronic equipment bring-up/diagnostic/manufacturing
Ability to read schematic/layout
System debug experience
Embedded programming and good knowledge of OS internals (Linux/Unix)
Has knowledge of common inter connecting buses and interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, XAUI, 10G Ethernet drivers, FPGA, Switch chips, SSL offload, TCAM programming.
Experience with DDR5
We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.
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