Astera Labs

System Validation Engineer - Haifa

Haifa District, Israel · Work style not stated

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EmployerAstera Labs
LocationHaifa District, Israel
Work styleWork style not stated
Employer posted1 year ago

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.

Role Overview

Astera Labs is establishing a strategic R&D center in Israel to drive the development of complex semiconductor chips that solve the critical 'data bottlenecks' enabling the future of AI at scale. As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a visionary System Validation Engineer to help build our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to take on meaningful product ownership in a new site, ensuring the reliability and testability of chips that power the world's largest AI clusters.

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Job Description

The mission of this role is to perform system validation for Astera Lab’s highly advanced devices, that includes defining strategy, develop tools, innovate, be creative to make sure devices are performing as they should in all aspects, logical, performance, durability, stress and more.

You will be part of the site located at Israel (Haifa – Matam), surrounded with highly experienced and professional engineers who will escort, mentor and support you on your journey at Astera Labs Israel.

Basic qualifications

Strong academic and technical background in electrical or computer engineering
3-5 years experience validating and/or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Networking and/or Server & Storage applications
Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, to plan and work with minimal guidance and supervision.
Entrepreneurial, open-mind behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind!

Required experience.

Hands-on, thorough knowledge of high-speed protocols like Ethernet CXL, PCIe, NVMe,.
Silicon/System bring-up, validation, and debug experience, including customer’s systems.
A Python coding experience
Familiarity with validation techniques C, C++
Experience with lab equipment as protocol analyzers, chambers, in-circuit debuggers, and CPU-based tool suites.
Familiarity with lab testing automation techniques

Preferred experience

Familiarity with devices trees and related debugging techniques.
Familiarity with board system design
C\C++ for embedded FW and device drivers
Basic understanding of x86/ARM architecture, UEFI/Linux boot sequence
Familiarity with CXL compliance standards and ability to follow and be involved in compliance consortiums to adapt the tests to be run from X86/ARM based platforms.
Experience working with DRAM memory vendors on DDR4 or DDR5 to identify issues and working on SoC HW/FW to improve memory calibration and tuning sequences.
Knowledge of memory subsystem compliance from a data integrity and RAS is a plus.
Knowledge of schematic capture and PCB layout tools from Cadence, Altium, etc.

Astera Labs is a young light-footed company, allowing our engineers to fully exploit their creativity and innovative thinking to enable you to grow up your engineering capabilities to the maximum!

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.

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