Senior Principal Engineer- Field Applications
Asteralabs · San Jose, California, United States
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## Astera Labs — (Sr.) Principal Engineer, Field Applications Engineering ### Role Overview As a (Sr.) Principal Engineer - Field Applications Engineering, you will serve as a trusted technical partner to customers deploying Astera Labs’ high-speed connectivity solutions. You will lead the continuation of critical customer support for Ethernet and PCIe products, translating system requirements into reliable, production-ready designs and accelerating issue resolution across complex AI infrastructure platforms. Based onsite in **San Jose**, you will work closely with customers and cross-functional teams across **sales, product management, design engineering, validation, and operations**. Your expertise in high-speed interfaces, physical-layer behavior, and system-level integration will help customers bring next-generation rack-scale AI architectures to market with confidence. ### Key Responsibilities - **Customer Technical Leadership** - Lead technical engagements with strategic customers from architecture definition through deployment and production support. - Own customer escalations, establish clear action plans, and drive issues to timely closure with measurable outcomes. - Present design recommendations, bring-up results, and technical tradeoffs to customer engineering and leadership teams. - **Ethernet and PCIe Product Support** - Develop and execute system-level debug plans for Ethernet and PCIe connectivity issues, including link training, interoperability, compliance, and performance. - Analyze physical-layer behavior, signal-integrity symptoms, error logs, lab data, and system telemetry to isolate root causes. - Partner with engineering teams to reproduce field issues, influence product improvements, and communicate effective workarounds or corrective actions. - **Cross-Functional Enablement** - Collaborate with sales and product management to capture customer requirements and shape application strategies for emerging AI infrastructure designs. - Create technical collateral, reference architectures, application notes, and enablement materials for customers and internal teams. - Mentor Field Applications Engineers and contribute to scalable processes for customer onboarding, issue tracking, and product adoption. ### Basic Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in **Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering**, or a related technical field. - **8–20 years** of experience in field applications engineering, system engineering, product engineering, or a related domain. - Deep hands-on experience with **Ethernet and/or PCIe** systems, high-speed SerDes, link training, interoperability, and compliance. - Strong understanding of physical-layer concepts, signal integrity, board-level bring-up, lab instrumentation, and system-level debug. - Demonstrated ability to lead complex customer escalations, debug, and communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences. - Ability to work onsite in **San Jose** and travel to customer and partner locations as needed. ### Preferred Qualifications - Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. - Experience with **PCIe Gen 5/6/7**, high-speed Ethernet, retimers, redrivers, signal-conditioning, and scale-up/scale-out solutions. - Familiarity with server, accelerator, switch, NIC, storage, or other data-center platform architectures. - Experience developing reference designs, validation plans, interoperability strategies, or customer-
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