Senior Data & Test Infra Engineer - Manufacturing

asteralabs; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex hours

Job summary

Astera Labs is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own and improve internal platforms behind manufacturing data, hardware test infrastructure, test automation, and failure analysis. This role blends software, data, infrastructure, and hardware operations to help engineering and manufacturing move quickly with reliable test data.

You will support systems that collect and organize test and manufacturing data from internal labs and partners, maintain automation and failure-analysis tools, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field.
• 3+ years building and operating backend systems, data systems, developer infrastructure, or internal platforms.
• Strong Python skills, including production services, scripts, libraries, or automation tools.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and structured data pipelines.
• Practical understanding of changing data formats, data quality challenges, and production data collection.
• Experience with relational, analytical, or streaming data systems.
• Experience supporting CI/CD systems, Git-based workflows, Linux environments, and containerized or cloud-based services.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Build, own, and improve data pipelines that collect, standardize, and organize manufacturing and test data.
• Integrate data from multiple internal and external sources, including lab test systems and manufacturing partners.
• Improve data quality, pipeline reliability, handling of changing formats, and visibility into pipeline health.
• Add support for new products, data sources, and manufacturing partners with minimal manual effort.
• Make the tools engineers use to access and analyze data faster and easier to use.
• Maintain and improve automation systems that support hardware validation and production testing.
• Operate and improve automated tools that process results, classify failures, and route issues to the right teams.
• Reduce repetitive debugging through better classification, dashboards, and internal tooling.

Skills

Python

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Astera Labs is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own and improve internal platforms behind manufacturing data, hardware test infrastructure, test automation, and failure analysis. This role blends software, data, infrastructure, and hardware operations to help engineering and manufacturing move quickly with reliable test data.

You will support systems that collect and organize test and manufacturing data from internal labs and partners, maintain automation and failure-analysis tools, and