Astera Labs is a global leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions that unlock the full potential of cloud and AI infrastructure. Our Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates PCIe, CXL and Ethernet semiconductor-based solutions based on a software-defined architecture that is both scalable and customizable. Inspired by trusted partnerships with hyperscalers and the data center ecosystem, we are an innovation leader of products that are flexible, interoperable, and reliable. We are headquartered in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, with R&D centers and offices in Taiwan, China, Vancouver and Toronto, Canada, and Haifa, Israel.
Job Description:
As an Astera Labs Senior Principal Quality Engineer, you will establish yourself as the champion responsible for quality management to the world’s leading cloud service providers. In this role, you will need to apply your quality experience across four domains: customer quality (returns root cause analysis and corrective action), supplier quality (audits, yield), new product development (reliability qualifications, design for reliability), and regulatory compliance (ISO, RoHS, conflict materials, safety, exports, electromagnetic interference). Some international travel required, approximately 10%, but varies based on company needs.
Basic qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Minimum of 15 years’ quality engineering experience including supplier/customer quality management, managing manufacturing excursions, failure analysis and overall 8D problem solving.
- Excellent soft skills with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, grow your network, influence without authority, and communicate effectively at all levels.
- Fluent in Mandarin and English.
Required experience:
- Proven track record working with large manufacturing (ODM/OEM) partners.
- Demonstrating excellent skills with relationship management in both supplier and customer roles.
- Deeply knowledgeable with standards such as IPC, JEDEC, REACH, RoHS, and ISO9001.
- Skilled with electrical characterization of faults through schematic / datasheet study, multimeters, oscilloscopes, JTAG / boundary scan, and TDR (time domain reflectometry). Quickly ramp up on the usage of our custom test hardware and software.
- Follow up electrical characterization with fault isolation, imaging, and chemical analysis. Use techniques like 2D/3D X-ray, Dye and Pry, Cross-section, SEM, and EDX.
- Develop and drive to completion the necessary corrective and preventive actions.
Preferred experience:
- At a minimum, all candidates must have a strong quality toolkit that will make them a good facilitator of the cross-functional problem-solving process for issues originating at either the customer or supplier. However, the preferred candidate couples this with solid hands-on lab experience in searching for root cause of issues, and testing out potential corrective actions.
- Python programming. Atlassian toolkit (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket). CAD layout Tools.
- Knowledge of high-speed protocols like PCIe, Ethernet, PAM4, DDR, etc.
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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