Embedded Software Engineer, Tech Lead

🕒 July 15

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Astera Labs

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51 - 200 employees

🚘 Automotive

🏭 Manufacturing

🔧 Hardware

💰 $150M Series D on 2022-11

Automotive • Manufacturing • Hardware

Astera Labs is a leader in purpose-built data and memory connectivity solutions that remove performance bottlenecks throughout the data center. With locations worldwide, the company’s silicon, software, and system-level connectivity solutions help realize the vision of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Cloud through CXL™, PCIe®, and Ethernet technologies. Partnering with leading processor vendors and cloud service providers, Astera Labs is focused on enhancing the performance of data-intensive applications. The company’s product portfolio includes system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and services to enable robust connectivity solutions.

📋 Description

• Write and modify embedded C firmware for analog and Ethernet connectivity devices, including register configuration, state machines, calibration sequences, and control loops • Work on low-level hardware bring-up and debug alongside senior firmware engineers • Contribute to features spanning analog control such as gain settings and equalization parameters, as well as Ethernet link management, SERDES configuration, and diagnostics • Help maintain and improve the firmware codebase with clean, reviewable code • Write Python scripts to automate test flows, collect and analyze data, and help make the team faster • Work with validation teams remotely to develop and execute test plans across a range of operating conditions and corner cases • Help build out CI infrastructure and automated test tooling as the team grows • Contribute to characterizing firmware behaviour across analog and Ethernet configurations, link states, and failure modes • Keep Jira tickets up to date, track your own work, and flag blockers early • Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions • Communicate clearly with teammates across firmware, silicon design, and applications

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field • 2 to 5 years of experience writing embedded C/C++ firmware on real hardware • Comfort working at the hardware/software boundary: reading datasheets, poking registers, interpreting hardware behaviour from software • Familiarity with Linux development tools: gcc/clang, make, bash, gdb, and git • Some experience with Python scripting, whether for test automation, data analysis, or general utility scripts • Strong communication skills and a collaborative attitude; you'll be working closely with a small team and need to keep everyone in the loop • A genuine interest in digging into hard problems and the persistence to see them through

🏖️ Benefits

• discretionary bonus • incentives • benefits