Astera Labs
AI infrastructure
LeadFirmwareQAEngineer
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“Lead Firmware QA Engineer at Astera Labs. Skills: Firmware QA, PCIe protocol, Test automation, Python scripting. Estimate work. identify dependencies”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver on SLAs
Industry & Context.
issue triage; issue debugging
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (EE) or Computer Science, minimum 15 years of experience, PCIe switch test engineer, solid understanding of PCIe protocol, scripting ( Python ) is must, manual and automation testing, automation development, manual testing, Signal integrity and protocol level validation, collecting PCIe trace using PCIe analyzer, analyzing the trace to triage issues, PRBS testing, loopback and margining tests, OOB testing, Protocols like MCTP, I2C, SPDM etc., Requirements management and traceability, Mentoring and coaching team members, Power user of Git, Power user of Jira, Power user of Confluence
Nice to Have
master’s or PhD in EE, Experience in PCIe compliance testing is a plus, validation of NIC controllers, validation of storage controllers
What You'll Do.
identify dependencies
design functional tests
execute functional tests
design performance tests
execute performance tests
design interoperability tests
execute interoperability tests
understand the design
develop test strategies
Perform automation testing
Perform manual testing
Perform Signal integrity validation
Perform protocol level validation
Perform loopback testing
Perform margining tests
Requirements management
Mentoring team members
coaching team members
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with Silicon team; Work closely with architecture team; Work closely with FW development team; Closely work with development teams; Regularly working with Hyperscale's; Regularly working with Tier 1 OEMs
Communication Scope
communicate plans; communicate status
Process & Methodology
Estimate work, identify dependencies, develop schedules, Requirements management, traceability
Full Job Description
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, Astera Labs, Bengaluru, India. Astera Labs Inc., a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems, is seeking Software QA Manager 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. Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (EE) or Computer Science is required; a master’s or PhD in EE is preferred with minimum 15 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 automatio
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