Field Applications Engineer

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 an Astera Labs Regional Field Applications Engineer, you will work with a team of FAEs as a player-coach to establish the team as trusted technical advisors to the world’s leading cloud service providers, server and network OEMs by working with them to design solutions that use Astera Labs’ portfolio of connectivity products. In this role, you will need to identify and understand customer requirements, propose Astera Labs solutions that provide clear value to the customer and provide hands-on design-in support. You will drive innovation by listening to the customer requirements, working with our engineering teams to implement into the product roadmap and delivering the results back to the customer. Basic Qualifications BS in electrical engineering. Master’s degree in engineering is preferred. 3 to 6 years’ experience working with Cloud service providers and server OEM customers to design in complex SoC/silicon products for Switches, Network Adapter(NIC) and/or Networking applications. Customer-oriented, Goal-driven, Self-motivated, be able to work independently and be able to travel frequently to customer sites in Asia. Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind! Required Experience Hands-on, thorough knowledge of high-speed protocols like 25G, 50G, 100G Ethernet etc. Experience with QSFP, QSFP-DD, and OSFP pluggable modules development/support. Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems. Experience with high-speed Signal Integrity issues. Experience with lab equipment including protocol analyzers and oscilloscopes . Experience with Python scripting or other equivalent programming languages. Preferred Experience Development/support for Ethernet Switch products. Knowledge of simulation, schematic capture, and PCB layout tools from Cadence, Altium and others etc. Experience working with Contract Manufactures to support NPI and Volume Production. Experience of working with US based engineering teams to support Asia based customers. Travel Requirement: Up to 25%. Able to travel at short notice. 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.