Senior System/FW Validation Engineer

Requirements:
Basic qualifications
Strong academic and technical background in electrical or computer engineering
≥3 years experience validating and/or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Networking and/or Server & Storage applications
Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, to plan and work with minimal guidance and supervision.
Entrepreneurial, open-mind behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind!
Required experience.
Hands-on, thorough knowledge of high-speed protocols like Ethernet CXL, PCIe, NVMe,.
Silicon/System bring-up, validation, and debug experience, including customers systems.
A Python coding experience
Familiarity with validation techniques C, C++
Experience with lab equipment as protocol analyzers, chambers, in-circuit debuggers, and CPU-based tool suites.
Familiarity with lab testing automation techniques
Preferred experience
Familiarity with devices trees and related debugging techniques.
Familiarity with board system design
C\C++ for embedded FW and device drivers
Basic understanding of x86/ARM architecture, UEFI/Linux boot sequence
Familiarity with CXL compliance standards and ability to follow and be involved in compliance consortiums to adapt the tests to be run from X86/ARM based platforms.
Experience working with DRAM memory vendors on DDR4 or DDR5 to identify issues and working on SoC HW/FW to improve memory calibration and tuning sequences.
Knowledge of memory subsystem compliance from a data integrity and RAS is a plus.
Knowledge of schematic capture and PCB layout tools from Cadence, Altium, etc.
Astera Labs is a young light-footed company, allowing our engineers to fully exploit their creativity and innovative thinking to enable you to grow up your engineering capabilities to the maximum!
We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.