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.
Job Description
As an Astera Labs Product Application Engineer, you will provide technical support to customers to help resolve design challenges, create collateral for existing and new products, and share feedback with internal teams to help improve products and processes. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with customers and also spend time in the lab supporting bring-up, validation, and debug activities for leading-edge semiconductor products.
Astera Labs is seeking a Product Applications Engineer in Shanghai, China with 5+ years of experience supporting the development and design-in of semiconductor products, ideally with exposure to PCIe/CXL technologies. This role is well suited for someone with a strong technical foundation, hands-on debug experience, and a customer-focused mindset who is looking to continue growing in a fast-paced environment.
Basic Qualifications
Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required; Master’s degree preferred
5+ years of experience supporting complex SoC or silicon products with high-speed interfaces
Customer-focused mindset with a proactive, open-minded, and problem-solving approach
What you'll do
Support customers in resolving technical design and integration challenges
Assist with silicon and system bring-up, validation, and debug activities
Develop customer-facing and internal technical collateral for products and solutions
Partner with internal engineering, sales, and field teams to drive issue resolution
Provide product and process feedback based on customer and lab learnings
Contribute to continuous improvement of application engineering workflows and support practices
Why Join Astera Labs
This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with a strong early-to-mid career foundation who wants to deepen their expertise in high-speed semiconductor products, customer-facing engineering, and lab-based debug. You will work on leading-edge technologies, collaborate with highly capable teams, and grow your impact in a dynamic and innovation-driven environment.
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.
Requirements
Experience with silicon or system bring-up and debug in customer or lab environments
Ability to support issue resolution by working with cross-functional internal teams and communicating clearly with customers, FAEs, and sales teams
Hands-on experience with lab equipment such as protocol analyzers, exercisers, high-speed oscilloscopes, or BERTs
Comfort working with software and firmware associated with semiconductor products, including exposure to C-language firmware development and scripting in Python or similar languages
Nice to have
Exposure to triaging customer-reported issues across multiple layers such as silicon, firmware, board design, and system environment
Familiarity with common data center BMC implementations and BIOS configuration
Experience supporting PCIe or Ethernet switch or retimer products
Exposure to PCIe compliance testing methodology and troubleshooting
Understanding of data center systems such as servers, JBOGs/JBODs, networking switches, routers, and interconnects
Working knowledge of PCIe architecture, standards, and debug, with recent experience in PCIe 5.0; exposure to PCIe 6.0 or CXL is