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Product Applications Engineer (NCG 2026, Aries)

Posted about 2 months ago

OfficeSan Jose, California, United States104k - 150k USD

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. 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, NVLink, 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. The company’s custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements. Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.

Job Description:

As an Astera Labs Early Career 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. 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.
  • Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind!

Required Experience

  • Technical ownership of issue resolution
  • 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 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.
  • 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.

The base salary range is $104k USD - $150k USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

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.

Job details
Workplace
Office
Location
San Jose, California, United States
Salary
104k - 150k USD
per year

Astera Labs: Purpose-Built Connectivity for Rack-Scale AI

Industry
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Headquarters
Santa Clara, CA
Founded
2017
Company location
Santa Clara, CA
Specialties
Connectivity solutions, Signal Conditioning, PCIe, Heterogeneous Compute, Hyper-scale Data Center, NVMe, Ethernet, CXL, AI, ML, Connectivity, Data Center, UALink, NVLink Fusion, and Rack-Scale AI

Key team members

Aleksandr Oysgelt

Aleksandr Oysgelt

Grant Brydon

Grant Brydon

Dave Lawson

Dave Lawson

Stefan Dyckerhoff

Stefan Dyckerhoff

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