Principal Product Applications Engineer

The role

You will support the design-in of connectivity products for cloud service providers and OEMs. You will provide technical guidance to customers, generate product collateral, and investigate reported issues.

What you will do

• Provide technical guidance to customers to overcome design challenges
• Generate collateral for existing and new products
• Provide feedback to internal teams to improve products and processes
• Investigate and duplicate issues reported by customers
• Drive critical issues to resolution
• Support key customers directly
• Address challenges associated with leading edge semiconductor products in the lab

Required qualifications

• Engineering bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 10 years' experience working with cloud service providers or server or network OEM customers to design in complex SoC/silicon products for server, storage, and/or networking applications
• System HW design and bring-up and debug experience
• Strong knowledge of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes-based protocols like PCIe, Ethernet (25G and above), etc. and/or memory interfaces such as (LP)DDR5/4/3
• Firsthand experience with lab equipment including traffic generators, analyzers, and high-speed oscilloscopes
• Strong background in high-speed board design and techniques for preserving signal integrity
• Technical writing skills to generate documentation including datasheets and application notes

Nice to have

• Master's degree
• Firmware development and in-system debug with C-language
• Scripting with Python or other equivalent programming languages
• Development/support for PCIe or Ethernet switch products
• Working with silicon characterization/validation teams
• Knowledge of simulation/modeling, schematic capture, and PCB layout tools from Cadence, Altium and others
• Knowledge of simulation tools such as Keysight ADS, SiSoft QCD, and others, for IBIS-AMI analysis
• Understanding of Data Center systems such as servers, compute nodes, JBOGs/JBODs, and networking switches/routers/interconnects, etc.
• Solid customer enablement experience

About the company

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