Principal Firmware QA Engineer

Requirements

• 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.
• Required Experience :
• Experienced and detail oriented PCIe switch test engineer with solid understanding of PCIe protocol.
• Estimate work, identify dependencies and develop schedules.
• Responsible for designing and executing functional, performance, interoperability and stress tests.
• Work closely with Silicon team, architecture team, FW development team to understand the design and develop test strategies.
• Responsible for manual and automation testing.
• Strong knowledge of scripting ( Python ) is must.
• Responsible for automation development and manual testing.
• Perform Signal integrity and protocol level validation.
• Closely work with development teams to triage and debug issues.
• Knowledge of collecting PCIe trace using PCIe analyzer and analyzing the trace to triage issues.
• Experience in PRBS testing, loopback and margining tests.
• Good understanding of OOB testing and Protocols like MCTP, I2C, SPDM etc.
• Experience is PCIe compliance testing is a plus.
• Regularly working with Hyperscale's and Tier 1 OEMs to communicate plans and status, address escalations, deliver on SLAs.
• Knowledge in validation of NIC controllers and storage controllers is preferred.
• Requirements management and traceability through software development phases.
• Mentoring and coaching team members to help them excel in their jobs.
• Power user of Git, Jira and Confluence.

Benefits

Additional Information

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 www.asteralabs.com . Title : Lead Firmware QA Engineer , A stera Labs, Bengaluru, India. Astera Labs Inc., a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems, is seeking Lead Software QA Engineer 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.

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