Astera Labs Inc.

Astera Labs Inc.

Senior Principal Engineer - Field Applications

San Jose, California, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$205k-$260kDetected 11 days ago
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About the role

  • Your expertise in high-speed interfaces, physical-layer behavior, and system-level integration will help customers bring next-generation rack-scale AI architectures to market with confidence.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer escalations, establish clear action plans, and drive issues to timely closure with measurable outcomes.
  • Present design recommendations, bring-up results, and technical tradeoffs to customer engineering and leadership teams.
  • Develop and execute system-level debug plans for Ethernet and PCIe connectivity issues, including link training, interoperability, compliance, and performance.
  • Partner with engineering teams to reproduce field issues, influence product improvements, and communicate effective workarounds or corrective actions.
  • Collaborate with sales and product management to capture customer requirements and shape application strategies for emerging AI infrastructure designs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 12-20 years of experience in field applications engineering, system engineering, product engineering, or a related domain.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Ethernet and/or PCIe systems, high-speed SerDes, link training, interoperability, and compliance.
  • Strong understanding of physical-layer concepts, signal integrity, board-level bring-up, lab instrumentation, and system-level debug.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience with PCIe Gen 5/6/7, high-speed Ethernet, retimers, redrivers, signal-conditioning and scale-up, scale-out solutions.
  • Familiarity with server, accelerator, switch, NIC, storage, or other data-center platform architectures.
  • Proven record of influencing cross-functional teams and mentoring technical professionals in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.

Skills

  • Customer Technical Leadership
  • Ethernet and PCIe Product Support
  • Analyze physical-layer behavior, signal-integrity symptoms, error logs, lab data, and system telemetry to isolate root causes.
  • Cross-Functional Enablement
  • Mentor Field Applications Engineers and contribute to scalable processes for customer onboarding, issue tracking, and product adoption.

Compensation

  • Salary range is $205,000 to $260,000 depending on experience, level, and business need.

Company info

  • As a Senior Principal Engineer - Field Applications Engineering, you will serve as a trusted technical partner to customers deploying Astera Labs' high-speed connectivity solutions.
  • Lead technical engagements with strategic customers from architecture definition through deployment and production support.
  • Create technical collateral, reference architectures, application notes, and enablement materials for customers and internal teams.
  • Based onsite in San Jose, you will work closely with customers and cross-functional teams across sales, product management, design engineering, validation, and operations.
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