Principal Product Application Engineer (AE, Scorpio)

• As an Astera Labs Principal Product Application Engineer, you will need to provide technical guidance to ODMs to overcome design challenges, generate collateral for existing and new products, and drive innovation by providing insightful feedback to other internal teams to continuously improve products and processes
• We need experience supporting the development and designing-in of semiconductor products for PCIe/CXL. There are opportunities to support key ODMs directly, and also to dive deep in the lab to address the challenges associated with leading edge semiconductor products

Benefits

• Flexible time off in the US
• Parental leave
• 401K
• Retirement and pension plans
• Competitive medical, dental and vision plans- Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE is required, Master’s is preferred
• Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind!
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience designing in complex SoC/silicon products with a high speed (preferably PCIe) interface
• 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
• Firsthand experience with lab equipment such as protocol analyzers/exercisers, high-speed oscilloscopes, or BERTs
• Technical ownership of issue resolution: Driving and directing internal teams, and driving communication to customers through FAE and sales teams
• Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems
• Global customer engagement support, with travel as required for on-site activities, reviews, and system bring-up
• Technical writing skills to generate clear, precise documentation including application notes and similar guides for internal and customer-facing audiences
• 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