Astera Labs

Full-stack Engineer

• Own the complete firmware stack for analog connectivity products, from low-level hardware abstraction through customer-facing APIs
• Design and implement embedded firmware that controls complex analog subsystems including adaptive equalization, gain control, PLL/CDR feedback loops, and thermal management
• Architect calibration algorithms, state machines, and control flow for managing analog tuning parameters across process, voltage, and temperature variation
• Establish software quality gates and validation criteria at each development phase
• Help recruit and hire two engineers to join your team, with ongoing involvement in recruiting as the team expands
• Lead your team, whether through direct management or technical mentorship, through design, implementation, code review, and debugging activities
• Lead architecture discussions and technical tradeoff decisions; balance performance, code size, maintainability, and time-to-market
• Serve as the go-to technical expert for mixed-signal firmware and analog control loop behavior
• Drive difficult debug sessions in the lab and through remote customer support, coordinating across silicon design, systems, and applications teams
• Partner with analog circuit designers to understand hardware behavior, tuning requirements, and failure modes
• Collaborate with product applications to translate customer requirements into firmware features and APIs
• Work alongside silicon and system validation teams to develop test plans, automate characterization flows, and verify firmware behavior across corner cases
• Coordinate with field applications engineers to support customer integration and resolve deployment issues
• Provide regular project updates on progress, risks, dependencies, and technical challenges

Principal Embedded Software Engineer – Analog Connectivity