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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 79 days Astera Labs's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 43% of Astera Labs's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Astera Labs
- high 160 stale, 8 reposted of 160 open
- Hiring momentum
- 218 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-29
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About this role
As a Principal Product Application Engineer at Astera Labs, you will provide technical guidance to ODMs, helping them overcome design challenges and generate collateral for semiconductor products, particularly in PCIe/CXL. Your role involves engaging with customers, driving innovation through feedback to internal teams, and addressing issues in the lab related to semiconductor products. You will also be responsible for technical documentation and may need to travel for customer engagement and system bring-up activities.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Master’s preferred)
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience designing complex SoC/silicon products with high-speed interfaces (preferably PCIe)
- Strong working knowledge of PCIe LTSSM at a physical layer level and associated standards
- Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems
- Technical ownership of issue resolution, driving internal teams and communicating with customers
- Experience with lab equipment such as protocol analyzers/exercisers, high-speed oscilloscopes, or BERTs
Nice to have
- Experience triaging complex customer-reported issues across multiple layers
- Development/support for PCIe or Ethernet Switch or Retimer products
- Knowledge of PCIe compliance testing methodology and troubleshooting
- Comfort with software/firmware associated with semiconductor products, including C-language and Python
- Understanding of Data Center systems like Servers, JBOGs/JBODs, Networking switches/routers/interconnects
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role involves significant customer interaction and potential travel
- Focus on PCIe/CXL may limit exposure to other technologies
- Requires strong technical writing skills for documentation
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Listed by Astera Labs on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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