AE| Principal Product Application Engineer (Scorpio)

San Jose, California, United States. Posted a month ago

The role

You will provide technical guidance to ODMs to overcome design challenges. You will generate collateral for products and provide feedback to internal teams to improve products and processes.

What you will do

Provide technical guidance to ODMs to overcome design challenges
Generate collateral for existing and new products
Drive innovation by providing feedback to internal teams
Support development and designing-in of semiconductor products for PCIe/CXL
Support key ODMs directly
Address challenges associated with leading edge semiconductor products in the lab
Drive and direct internal teams for issue resolution
Drive communication to customers through FAE and sales teams
Generate clear, precise documentation including application notes
Support global customer engagement through travel

Required qualifications

Bachelor's in EE
Minimum of 10 years' experience designing in complex SoC/silicon products with a high speed interface
Strong working knowledge of PCIe LTSSM at a physical layer level, associated standards, and debug
Most recent experience with PCIe 4.0 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
Technical writing skills to generate clear, precise documentation

Nice to have

Master's degree
Experience with 5.0/CXL
Triaging complex customer reported issues involving 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 such as Firmware development with C-language or scripting with Python
Understanding of Data Center systems like Servers, JBOGs/JBODs, Networking switches/routers/interconnects

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.