Über diese PCIe Post-Silicon Validation Engineer Stelle bei Astera Labs
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.
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Perform hands-on PCIe post-silicon validation
- Debug PCIe link issues including link training, LTSSM, equalization, recovery, resets, and link stability.
- Analyze PCIe state-machine traces, protocol traces, registers, logs, eye diagrams, and lab measurements.
- Drive complex issues from initial failure through root-cause analysis and final resolution.
- Work closely with silicon, firmware, software, architecture, and signal-integrity engineers to isolate issues across HW/FW/SW boundaries.
- Validate PCIe functionality across different generations, platforms, configurations, and operating conditions.
- Develop and execute PCIe validation plans, stress tests, corner-case scenarios, and interoperability tests.
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Develop automation to improve validation coverage, debug efficiency, and regression testing.
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of engineering experience in silicon validation, post-silicon debug, or high-speed interface development.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of PCIe architecture and protocol.
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Experience working with PCIe analyzers, state traces, registers, logs, eye diagrams, and/or signal-integrity measurements.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to independently drive issues to root cause.
- Experience working across hardware, firmware, and software boundaries.
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Good scripting/programming skills, preferably Python
- Good Linux knowledge and experience with Linux PCIe debug tools.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
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Experience with PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6/Gen7
- Hands-on experience with PCIe PHY, SerDes, equalization, lane margining, or signal integrity.
- Experience with PCIe compliance and interoperability testing.
- Experience debugging intermittent, marginal, thermal-sensitive, or corner-case PCIe failures.
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Experience with PCIe switches, or networking/accelerator platforms.
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Practical experience using AI/ML tools for engineering debug and automation.
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