Astera Labs
Principal Product Applications Engineer – Scorpio
$207K–$230K
San Jose, California, United States +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
California - Experience
- 8–12 years in product applications, firmware development, systems engineering, platform validation, or a related semiconductor domain.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads customer and internal engineering efforts to architect, bring up, debug, and validate Scorpio PCIe fabric solutions for rack-scale AI systems.
What you'll do
- Lead customer engagements and develop Scorpio firmware architectures, reference designs, and technical guidance.
- Drive platform bring-up, interoperability debugging, and firmware validation across hosts and high-performance devices.
- Coordinate cross-functional root-cause analysis and guide product issues from prototype through mass production.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Strong understanding of PCIe Switch Firmware and PCIe architecture.
- Firmware development or debug experience, including reading code and interpreting logs.
- Hands-on system bring-up, lab debug, protocol analysis, and root-cause investigation experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with PCIe Gen 5, Gen 6 or Gen 7, PCIe fabric switches, retimers, or other high-speed connectivity products.
- Familiarity with UALink, UCIe, or emerging scale-up and scale-out interconnect architectures.
Pay
$207,000 to $230,000 USD base salary
Tools
PCIe, Scorpio, UALink, UCIe, BMCs, GPUs, NICs
AI focus
Supports rack-scale AI infrastructure by enabling PCIe fabric connectivity across AI systems and accelerator platforms.
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