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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.\nJob Description\nAs an Astera Labs Senior FAE, you will establish yourself as trusted technical advisor to the world’s leading cloud service providers, server and network OEMs by working with them to design solutions that use Astera Labs’ portfolio of connectivity products. In this role, you will need to identify and understand customer requirements, propose Astera Labs solutions that provide clear value to the customer and provide hands-on design-in support. You will drive innovation by gathering customer requirements, defining new products and working with some of the brightest engineers in the industry.\nBasic qualifications\nBS in electrical engineering. Master’s degree in engineering is preferred.\nMinimum of 8 years’ experience working with Cloud service providers and server OEM customers to design in complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage, and/or Networking applications.\nStrong organization skills and ability to provide clear and condensed notes and actions.\nCustomer-oriented, Goal-driven, Self-motivated, be able to work independently and be able to travel frequently to customer sites\nFluent in Mandarin and English\nEntrepreneurial, open-mind behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind!\nRequired experience\nHands-on, thorough knowledge of high-speed protocols like PCIe, Ethernet, Infiniband, DDR, NVMe, USB, etc.\nSilicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems.\nExperience with lab equipment including protocol analyzers and oscilloscopes.\nA strong background in high-speed board design techniques, and understanding of Data Center systems like Servers, JBOGs/JBODs, Networking switches/routers etc.\nIntermediate level of proficiency in Python for automating system validation and link optimization.\nAble to step through embedded firmware at the SerDes (SoC) or MCU level for debugging.\nPreferred experience\nStrong working knowledge of a high speed interface at a physical layer level, associated standards, and debug. 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