Astera Labs Early Career Product Application Engineer

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.

• Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering.
• Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind!, * 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.