Principal PCIe Firmware Architect for AI Infrastructure

Astera Labs; San Jose (CA); Presencial; USD 207.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Astera Labs, NASDAQ: ALAB, is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Scorpio Product Applications team to help customers deploy high-performance PCIe fabric solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure. You will translate complex system requirements into practical architectures, lead platform bring-up, and guide the integration of Scorpio switches across demanding CPU, GPU, NIC, storage, and accelerator designs.

This role connects product strategy, firmware, and real-world system behavior.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8–12 years of experience in product applications, firmware, systems engineering, platform validation, or semiconductor domain.
• Strong understanding of PCIe Switch Firmware, PCIe architecture including link training, enumeration, configuration space, error handling, performance, and system interoperability.
• Hands-on experience with system bring-up, lab debug, protocol analysis, and root-cause investigation across complex hardware and software stacks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to both engineering teams and customers.

Responsabilidades

• Lead technical engagements with customers and ecosystem partners to define Scorpio-based PCIe Firmware architectures and deployment requirements.
• Develop reference designs, application guidance, technical presentations, and system-level collateral that accelerate customer adoption.
• Translate customer use cases into clear Scorpio Firmware requirements, integration plans, and prioritized technical actions.
• 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.
• Analyze link training, enumeration, performance, error handling, data traffic and system stability issues using protocol traces, logs, and lab instrumentation.
• 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.

Conocimientos

Communication skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Herramientas

PCIe Firmware

Descripción del empleo

Astera Labs, NASDAQ: ALAB, is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Scorpio Product Applications team to help customers deploy high-performance PCIe fabric solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure. You will translate complex system requirements into practical architectures, lead platform bring-up, and guide the integration of Scorpio switches across demanding CPU, GPU, NIC, storage, and accelerator designs.

This role connects product strategy, firmware, and real-world system behavior.