Principal Firmware QA Engineer

3 hours ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Astera Labs Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 36,00,000 per year

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions grounded in open standards. 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, 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. Discover more at

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stera Labs, Bengaluru, India.
Astera Labs Inc., a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems, is seeking
Lead Software QA Engineer
for their Bengaluru (India) Design Center. Partnering with leading processor and GPU vendors, cloud service providers, world-class manufacturing companies, Astera Labs is helping data-centric system designers remove performance bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. For more information about Astera Labs, see 

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (EE) or Computer Science is required; a master's or PhD in EE is preferred with minimum 8 years of experience.

Required Experience

  • Experienced and detail oriented PCIe switch test engineer with solid understanding of PCIe protocol.
  • Estimate work, identify dependencies and develop schedules.
  • Responsible for designing and executing functional, performance, interoperability and stress tests.
  • Work closely with Silicon team, architecture team, FW development team to understand the design and develop test strategies.
  • Responsible for manual and automation testing.
  • Strong knowledge of scripting ( Python ) is must.
  • Responsible for automation development and manual testing.
  • Perform Signal integrity and protocol level validation.
  • Closely work with development teams to triage and debug issues.
  • Knowledge of collecting PCIe trace using PCIe analyzer and analyzing the trace to triage issues.
  • Experience in PRBS testing, loopback and margining tests.
  • Good understanding of OOB testing and Protocols like MCTP, I2C, SPDM etc.
  • Experience is PCIe compliance testing is a plus.
  • Regularly working with Hyperscalers and Tier 1 OEMs to communicate plans and status, address escalations, deliver on SLAs.
  • Knowledge in validation of NIC controllers and storage controllers is preferred.
  • Requirements management and traceability through software development phases.
  • Mentoring and coaching team members to help them excel in their jobs.
  • Power user of Git, Jira and Confluence.

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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