Diagnostic Platform Software Engineer

Job Description:

As a member of the Astera Labs Hardware Engineering team you will be responsible for building diagnostics and manufacturing software to allow design, test, and manufacture of cutting edge high speed datacenter AI products.  You will be working on projects from conception to the mass production stage at contract manufacturer. You will be closely collaborating with ASIC and software teams.

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 a desire to learn.  Depending on your experience you may be focusing on platform, diagnostics, scripting, or data analysis.

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
• 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 reviews, and project management
• Work independently as well as in team roles

Basic Qualifications/Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience & Bachelor’s in CS/CE or equivalent experience.
• Experience in subset of diag, hardware bring-up, test or manufacturing automation
• Knowledge of modern software development
• Proficiency in Python

Preferred experience

• Experience working with CMs
• Experience designing functional test software / scripts
• Experience with data / log analysis
• Experience working with datacenter-level complex electronic equipment bring-up/diagnostic/manufacturing
• Working across geographic locations / time zones
• Ability to read schematic/layout
• System debug experience
• Embedded programming and good knowledge of OS internals (Linux/Unix)
• 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 DDR4/DDR5