Lead Firmware QA Engineer at Astera Labs

<div class="content-intro"><p><span data-teams="true">Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI. Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity. The company’s custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements. Discover more at <a id="menurhut" class="fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" href="http://www.asteralabs.com/" target="_blank">www.asteralabs.com</a>.</span></p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Title</span></strong><span data-contrast="none">: <strong><span data-teams="true">Lead Firmware QA Engineer</span>, A</strong></span><strong><span data-contrast="none">stera Labs, Bengaluru, India.</span></strong>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><span data-contrast="none">Astera Labs Inc., a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems, is seeking <strong>Lead Software QA Engineer</strong></span><span data-contrast="none"> for their Bengaluru (India) Design Center. Partnering with leading processor and GPU vendors, cloud service providers, world-class manufacturing companies, Astera Labs is helping data-centric system designers remove performance bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.</span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134245417&quot;:false}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>Basic Qualifications</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (EE) or Computer Science is required; a master’s or PhD in EE is preferred with minimum 4 years of experience.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Required Experience</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Experienced and detail oriented PCIe switch test engineer with solid understanding of PCIe protocol.</li> <li>Estimate work, identify dependencies and develop schedules.</li> <li>Responsible for designing and executing functional, performance, interoperability and stress tests.</li> <li>Work closely with&nbsp; Silicon team, architecture team, FW development team to understand the design and develop test strategies.</li> <li>Responsible for manual and automation testing.</li> <li>Strong knowledge of scripting ( Python ) is must.</li> <li>Responsible for automation development and manual testing.</li> <li>Perform Signal integrity and protocol level validation.</li> <li>Closely work with development teams to triage and debug issues.</li> <li>Knowledge of collecting PCIe trace using PCIe analyzer and analyzing the trace to triage issues.</li> <li>Experience in PRBS testing, loopback and margining tests.</li> <li>Good understanding of OOB testing and Protocols like MCTP, I2C, SPDM etc.</li> <li>Experience is PCIe compliance testing is a plus.</li> <li>Regularly working with Hyperscale's and Tier 1 OEMs to communicate plans and status, address escalations, deliver on SLAs.</li> <li>Knowledge in validation of NIC controllers and storage controllers is preferred.</li> <li>Requirements management and traceability through software development phases.</li> <li>Mentoring and coaching team members to help them excel in their jobs.</li> <li>Power user of Git, Jira and Confluence.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p>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.</p></div>