Astera Labs Inc.
Principal Product Applications Engineer – Scorpio
San Jose, California, United States · Principal
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About the role
- As a Principal Engineer on the Scorpio Product Applications team, you will help customers and internal teams deploy high-performance PCIe fabric solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure.
- This role connects product strategy, firmware, and real-world system behavior.
- You will work across hardware, firmware, validation, and customer-facing teams to solve interoperability challenges, accelerate adoption, and shape the next generation of PCIe Gen 6/Gen 7 connectivity.
Responsibilities
- Develop reference designs, application guidance, technical presentations, and system-level collateral that accelerate customer adoption.
- Drive system bring-up, debug, and interoperability across PCIe hosts, BMCs, GPUs, NICs, storage devices, and other high-performance endpoints.
- Partner with firmware teams to define, implement, and validate device configuration, traffic routing, boot flows, telemetry, recovery mechanisms, and field-debug capabilities.
- Build and maintain firmware, validation, and automation workflows that improve debug efficiency and product readiness.
- Partner with firmware, architecture, design, validation, and FAE teams to resolve complex issues from prototype through mass production.
- Lead root-cause analysis, communicate risks and recommendations, and drive issues to closure with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8-12 years of experience in product applications, firmware development, systems engineering, platform validation, or a related semiconductor domain.
- Strong understanding of PCIe Switch Firmware, PCIe architecture (including link training, enumeration, configuration space, error handling, performance, and system interoperability).
- Experience with firmware development or debug, including the ability to read code, interpret logs, and collaborate effectively with firmware developers.
- Hands-on experience with system bring-up, lab debug, protocol analysis, and root-cause investigation across complex hardware and software stacks.
Skills
- Product Applications and Customer Enablement
- Translate customer use cases into clear Scorpio Firmware requirements, integration plans, and prioritized technical actions.
- PCIe and Firmware Bring-Up
- Cross-Functional Product Leadership
Company info
- Role Overview As a Principal Engineer on the Scorpio Product Applications team, you will help customers and internal teams deploy high-performance PCIe fabric solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure.
- Lead technical engagements with customers and ecosystem partners to define Scorpio-based PCIe Firmware architectures and deployment requirements.
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