Principal Product Engineer

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Principal Product Engineer to lead and develop next generation high-speed, high performance and low power semiconductor products in advanced process node. The ideal candidate possesses breadth of industry experience in high-speed product development in the field of product and/or test engineering, can apply fundamentals in circuit, ATE, and test program to aid problem solving, and is a self-driven, result focused go-getter in the pursuit of goals and objectives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in the field of post silicon product development dealing with high-speed I/O (product test or validation)
• Have gone through at least one cycle of full product development life cycle
• Strong academic/technical background in electrical or computer engineering; Bachelor’s is required; MS preferred
• Strong problem-solving skills that involve system level analysis with test hardware, test program and DUT.
• Digital and analog circuit level understanding for DUT
• Excellent team player with great communication skills
• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks

Required Experience:

• Hands on experience with using the Advantest 93k ATE platform with specific skills updating ATE test programs for wafer sort and final test solutions or similar ATE platform
• Detailed mindset monitoring device ATE test yields, ATE test time, device quality and rolling out new ATE test programs using consistent BKMs
• Strong data analysis skills using tools such as JMP or Spotfire calculating limits and drawing conclusions
• Energetic work mindset meeting the demands of shipping quality parts to Astera Labs’ customers through the manufacturing stage of development
• Hands on experience in product/package qualification

Preferred Experience:

• Hands-on knowledge of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes protocols like PCIe (Gen3 and above), Ethernet (25G and above), etc. and/or memory interfaces such as (LP)DDR5/4
• Working with silicon validation teams to ensure device performance meets production requirements
• Firmware development in C/C++, scripting in Python, or other equivalent programming experience