As a member of the Astera Labs Hardware Engineering team, you will be responsible for building diagnostics and manufacturing software to design, test, and manufacture cutting-edge high-speed data center products. You will work on projects from conception to the final production stage at a contract manufacturer.
The role requires a strong and broad software background and a good understanding of hardware design and manufacturing practices. At the same time, we welcome candidates with deep experience in smaller areas who desire to learn. Depending on your experience, you may focus on design/validation or automation/manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement & test production-grade diagnostics for high-speed digital boards and ASICS to help with hardware validation
- Design, implement & test manufacturing tests to validate mass production of digital boards used in data center networking products
- Bring up newly manufactured boards and port the first level of software
- Isolate and perform root-cause analysis of reported failure
- Support new platform software and hardware feature
- Coordinate with the hardware engineering team on bring-up schedules and feature deliver
- Participate proactively in design discussions, design review, and project management
work independently as well as in team roles, mentor younger team members
Desired Experience:
- 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)
- Knows common interconnecting buses and interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, XAUI, 10G Ethernet drivers, FPGA, Switch chips, SSL offload, and TCAM programming Experience with DDR5