Senior Engineer, Astera Labs
Hardware Diagnostics
$120-195k
Office located in San Jose, CA
Purpose-built connectivity solutions
Be an early applicant
Purpose-built connectivity solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-195k
Office located in San Jose, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a trusted partner for distributing data in intelligent systems.
Role
Who you are
- The role requires a strong and broad software background and a good understanding of hardware design and manufacturing practices
- Bachelors in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of modern software development
- Proficiency in Python, C or similar
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, highly technical environment
- 2+ years of Experience in subset of diagnostics, hardware bring-up, test or manufacturing automation
- Strong debugging skills across hardware, firmware, and system layers
Desirable
- Experience working with datacenter-level complex electronic equipment bring-up/diagnostic/manufacturing
- Ability to read schematic/layout
- System debug experience
- Embedded programming and good knowledge of OS internals (Linux/Unix)
- Has knowledge of common interconnecting buses and interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, XAUI, 10G Ethernet drivers, FPGA, Switch chips, SSL offload, TCAM programming
- Experience with DDR5
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Diagnostics Engineer on the Astera Labs Hardware Engineering team you will be responsible for building diagnostics and manufacturing software to allow design, test, and manufacture of cutting-edge high-speed datacenter products
- You will be working on a project from conception to the final production stage at contract manufacturer
- You'll design, implement & test production-grade diagnostics for high-speed digital boards and ASICS to help with hardware validation
- Design, implement & test manufacturing tests to validate mass production of digital boards used in data center networking product
- Bring-up newly manufactured boards and port the first level of software
- Isolate and perform root-cause analysis of reported failures
- Support new platform software and hardware features
- Coordinate with the hardware engineering team on bring-up schedules and feature delivery
- Participate proactively in design discussions, design review and project management
Our take
Astera Labs was founded in 2017 to help companies ease bottlenecks in computing-intensive tasks. This is a problem that has become increasingly urgent with the rapid development of AI technology, and constitutes what Astera Labs has described as an addressable market that will reach $8 billion by 2025.
Astera Labs has had a particularly quick start as the pace of digital transformation has continued to accelerate amongst companies, enabling it to grow despite the recent economic slowdown. On top of this, its fabless approach facilitates faster scaling, helping to position the company as a market-leading connectivity provider.
With this remarkable growth and significant funding at its back, the company has cultivated a strong reputation and a range of products that tightly address pressing market issues. Lately, it has focused on growing its products and operations, particularly in North America and Asia, as well as expanding into Canada and achieving an IPO in 2024.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
46% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2022
$150m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $206.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible time off in the US
- Parental leave
- Competitive medical, dental and vision plans
- 401K
- Retirement and pension plans
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Jitendra Mohan
(CEO)After graduating with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, they were Design Director at the National Semiconductor Corporation.
Casey Morrison
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously Systems Engineering Manager, Member of Group Technical Staff at Texas Instruments.
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