Lead High Volume Manufacturing Product Engineer

Job Description:

As an Astera Labs HVM Product and Test Engineering, you will support existing products already in HVM (high volume manufacturing) at our Asia OSAT partners. Maintaining smooth manufacturing to ensure on-time customer shipments is one key objective. In this role, you will complement the New Product Introduction Product Engineers as products are released into production and own the engineering manufacturing during mass production. The ideal candidate possesses breadth of industry experience in high-speed product development in the field of product and/or test engineering, can apply fundamentals in circuit, ATE, and test program to aid problem solving, and is a self-driven, result focused go-getter in the pursuit of goals and objectives.

Basic qualifications:

· Minimum of 5 years of experience in the field of post silicon product development dealing with high-speed XCVR (product, test or validation)

· Experience in product and package qualification

· Have gone through at least one cycle of full product development life cycle

· Strong academic/technical background in electrical or computer engineering; Bachelor’s is required; MS preferred

· Strong problem-solving skills that involve system level analysis with test hardware, test program and DUT.

· Digital and analog circuit level understanding for DUT.

· Excellent team player with great communication skills

· Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks

Required experience:

· Proven track record continuing seamless production of semiconductor products partnering with OSATs supporting high volume manufacturing through the complete product lifecycle

· Hands on experience with using the Advantest 93k ATE platform with specific skills updating ATE test programs for wafer sort and final test solutions

· Familiarity with JEDEC standard and hands on experience in product and package qualification, failure disposition, FIT rate calculation

· Detailed mindset monitoring device ATE test yields, ATE test time, device quality and rolling out new ATE test programs using consistent BKMs

· Strong data analysis skills using tools such as JMP or Spotfire calculating limits and drawing conclusions

· Energetic work mindset meeting the demands of shipping quality parts to Astera Labs’ customers through the manufacturing stage of development

Preferred experience:

· Working with silicon validation teams to ensure device performance meets production requirements.

· Firmware development in C/C++, scripting in Python, or other equivalent programming experience.

· Hands-on knowledge of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes protocols like PCIe (Gen3 and above), Ethernet (25G and above), etc. and/or memory interfaces such as (LP)DDR5/4.