PCIe Firmware Expert

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel. Posted a month ago

The role

This person will design and develop real-time embedded firmware in C and own PCIe firmware features end to end. They will work on firmware for compute connectivity silicon and develop the COSMOS SDK.

What you will do

Design and develop real-time embedded firmware in C
Own PCIe firmware features including link training, enumeration, error handling, and recovery
Develop and debug firmware pre-silicon and lead post-silicon bring-up and debug in the lab
Debug complex PCIe and system-level issues with various teams
Develop and extend the company SDK
Support customer requests and adjust firmware and SDK development

Required qualifications

BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
10+ years of hands-on experience as a firmware engineer
Proven experience in embedded and real-time firmware development
Strong programming skills in C on resource-constrained, bare-metal, or RTOS-based systems
Solid understanding of processor architecture, memory-mapped registers, interrupts, and HW/SW interaction
Expert-level knowledge of PCIe: LTSSM and link training, enumeration, configuration space, error handling (AER), and reset and recovery flows
Experience with PCIe protocol analyzers and exercisers (e.g., Teledyne LeCroy, Keysight)
Proven hands-on experience in both pre-silicon and post-silicon firmware development and debugging, including silicon bring-up of new SoCs
Strong debugging skills on real hardware using JTAG debuggers, logs, and register-level analysis
Broad system-level understanding of how silicon, firmware, SDK, host software, and platform interact
A team player with excellent communication skills
Comfort with ambiguity and ownership in a fast-moving, high-growth company

About the company

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