Principal Product Applications Engineer (PCIe/CXL)

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions grounded in open standards. By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI. Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity. Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.

Job Description:

As an Astera Labs Principal Product Application Engineer, you will need to provide technical guidance to customers 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. Astera Labs is seeking a Principal Product Applications Engineer in Shanghai, China with experience supporting the development and designing-in of semiconductor products for PCIe/CXL. There are opportunities to support key customers directly, and also to dive deep in the lab to address the challenges associated with leading edge semiconductor products.

Basic Qualifications

• 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!

Required Experience

• Strong working knowledge of PCIe LTSSM at a physical layer level, associated standards, and debug. Most recent experience with PCIe 5.0 at a minimum, some experience with 6.0/CXL preferred.
• Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems.
• Technical ownership of issue resolution: Driving and directing internal teams toward issue resolution. Driving communication with customers, FAEs, and sales team members
• Firsthand experience with lab equipment such as protocol analyzers/exercisers, high-speed oscilloscopes, or BERTs.
• Comfort working with software/firmware associated with semiconductor products, such as: Firmware development with C-language, scripting with Python or other equivalent programming languages.

Preferred Experience

• Triaging complex customer reported issues which require taking into account multiple layers of conditions. For instance, silicon, firmware, hardware board design, and system environment.
• Experience with common data center BMC implementation, and BIOS configuration
• Development/support for PCIe or Ethernet Switch or Retimer products.
• PCIe compliance testing methodology and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of Data Center systems like Servers, JBOGs/JBODs, Networking switches/routers/interconnects etc.

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.