Hardware Diagnostics Senior Engineer
Location: San Jose, CA
Department: Hardware Engineering
Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI. Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity. The company’s custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements. Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.
As a Senior Software Diagnostics Engineer on 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 products. You will be working on a project from conception to the final production stage at 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 and desire to learn. Depending on your experience, you may be focusing 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 product
- Bring-up newly manufactured boards and 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
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of modern software development
- Proficiency in Python, C or similar
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, highly technical environment.
Required Experience
- 2+ years of Experience in subset of diagnostics, hardware bring-up, test or manufacturing automation
- Strong debugging skills across hardware, firmware, and system layers
Preferred Experience/Nice to Have
- 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 interconnecting buses and interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, XAUI, 10G Ethernet drivers, FPGA, Switch chips, SSL offload, TCAM programming.
- Experience with DDR5
The base salary range is $120,000 - $195,000. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.
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