Astera Labs Inc.

Astera Labs Inc.

Sr. Principal Product Applications Engineer – Custom Solutions

San Jose, California, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$205k-$260kDetected 11 days ago
PythonC++CLinuxProduct ManagementFPGAEmbedded SystemsSystems EngineeringElectrical EngineeringLeadershipCommunication

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About the role

  • Astera Labs is seeking a Sr Principal Product Applications Engineer to serve as the technical bridge between our customers and engineering organization.
  • This is not a traditional pre-sales Field Applications Engineer role, nor is it an internal validation position.
  • You will combine deep technical expertise with strong customer engagement, helping solve complex system-level challenges while influencing future silicon development.

Responsibilities

  • Develop trusted technical relationships with customer engineering teams and become a key advisor throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Support customer engagements from architecture discussions through silicon bring-up, validation, production, and deployment.
  • Lead complex customer debug efforts involving hardware, firmware, software, and system-level integration.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, ASIC Design, Firmware, Validation, and Software Engineering to drive customer success.
  • Support customer design reviews, architecture discussions, technical training, and executive-level technical engagements.
  • Develop technical collateral, application notes, reference designs, troubleshooting guides, and customer documentation.
  • Support technical escalations and drive issues to resolution across cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Develop automation and diagnostic tools using Python or C/C++ to improve engineering efficiency and customer support.
  • Travel to customer sites as needed to support key design wins and strategic engagements.
  • In this highly customer-facing role, you will work directly with hyperscalers, AI labs, and infrastructure partners to support custom silicon programs from early architecture discussions through production deployment.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Product Applications Engineering, Systems Engineering, Customer Engineering, Field Applications Engineering, or a related customer-facing semiconductor role.
  • Experience supporting advanced semiconductor or custom silicon products from architecture through production.
  • Strong understanding of high-speed interconnect technologies, including Ethernet (through 800G), PCIe, PAM4, SerDes, DSPs, DAC, AEC, ACC, AOC, and related hardware technologies.
  • Experience with silicon bring-up, post-silicon validation, and system-level debugging.
  • Experience writing Python or C/C++ scripts for automation, diagnostics, firmware validation, or lab workflows.

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting AI infrastructure platforms or high-performance computing systems.
  • Familiarity with custom ASIC development and customer-specific silicon solutions.
  • Experience with firmware, embedded software, or FPGA validation.
  • Understanding of networking, storage, memory, or accelerator architectures.
  • Experience creating customer-facing technical documentation, training materials, and application notes.

Skills

  • Labs (NASDAQ:
  • ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions.
  • Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.

Compensation

  • The salary range is $205,000 to $260,000, depending on experience, level, and business needs.

Company info

  • The Opportunity Astera Labs is seeking a Sr Principal Product Applications Engineer to serve as the technical bridge between our customers and engineering organization.
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