Product Application Engineer PCIe/CXL (Mandarin Speaker)

The role

You will provide technical guidance to customers to overcome design challenges and generate product collateral. You will also drive innovation by providing feedback to internal teams to improve products and processes.

What you will do

• Provide technical guidance to customers to overcome design challenges
• Generate collateral for existing and new products
• Drive innovation by providing insightful feedback to internal teams
• Focus on development, debugging, and design-in activities related to customers in a designated geography
• Coordinate with local development teams at Astera Labs Headquarters
• Drive and direct internal teams toward issue resolution
• Drive communication with customers, FAEs, and sales team members

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's in EE
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in designing in complex SoC/silicon products with a high speed interface
• Full professional proficiency in Mandarin (written and spoken)
• 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
• Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems
• 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
• 8+ years of experience supporting the development and design-in of semiconductor products for PCIe/CXL

Nice to have

• Master's degree
• Experience with 6.0/CXL
• Triaging complex customer reported issues which require taking into account multiple layers of conditions
• 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.
• Mandarin language proficiency preferred

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Incentives
• Benefits

About the company

Astera Labs provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. The company's Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe, and UALink semiconductor-based technologies with the COSMOS software suite.