Principal Diagnostic Platform Software Engineer, Astera Labs

$160-240k

Python
Linux
Unix
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Santa Clara, CA

Astera Labs

Purpose-built connectivity solutions

Open for applications

Astera Labs

Purpose-built connectivity solutions

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceData storageEnterpriseMachine Learning

Open for applications

$160-240k

Python
Linux
Unix
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Santa Clara, CA

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceData storageEnterpriseMachine Learning

Company mission

To be a trusted partner for distributing data in intelligent systems.

Role

Who you are

  • The role requires strong and broad software background and good understanding of hardware design and manufacturing practices
  • At the same time we welcome candidates with deep experience in smaller areas and desire to learn
  • Bachelor’s in CS/CE or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of Experience in subset of diag, hardware bring-up, test or manufacturing automation
  • Knowledge of modern software development
  • Proficiency in Python

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 inter connecting 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 member of Astera Labs Hardware Engineering team you will be responsible for building diagnostics and manufacturing software to allow design, test, and manufacture cutting edge high speed datacenter products
  • You will be working on project from conception to the final production stage at contract manufacturer
  • Design, implement & test production-grade diagnostics for high-speed digital boards and ASICS to help with hardware validation
  • Depending on your experience you may be focusing on design/validation or automation/manufacturing
  • Design, implement & test manufacturing tests to validate mass production of digital boards used in data center networking product
  • Bring-up newly manufactured boards and the 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
  • Work independently as well as in team roles, mentor younger team members

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.

Although still relatively young, Astera Labs has had a particularly quick start. The pace of digital transformation has continued to accelerate amongst companies, meaning it has been able to grow despite the recent slowing of the economy. 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 eyeing up an IPO for 2024.

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Insights

Top investors

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 values

  • Focused on customer’s needs
  • Delivering consistent results
  • Innovating exponentially
  • Operating with the highest levels of integrity and ethical standards

Company HQ

Santa Clara, CA

Leadership

After graduating with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, they were Design Director at the National Semiconductor Corporation.

Previously Systems Engineering Manager, Member of Group Technical Staff at Texas Instruments.

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