# AE| Principal Product Application Engineer (Scorpio) at Astera Labs

- Company: Astera Labs
- What the company does: Astera Labs: Purpose-Built Connectivity for Rack-Scale AI.
- Company website: https://www.asteralabs.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteralabs/jobs/4738757005?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/astera-labs-ae-principal-product-application-engineer-scorpio/

## About the role

As an Astera Labs Principal Product Application Engineer, you will need to provide technical guidance to ODMs to overcome design challenges, generate collateral for existing and new products, and drive innovation by providing insightful feedback to other internal teams to continuously improve products and processes. We need experience supporting the development and designing-in of semiconductor products for PCIe/CXL. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE is required, Master’s is preferred
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience designing in complex SoC/silicon products with a high speed (preferably PCIe) interface
- Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act with the customer in mind!
- Strong working knowledge of PCIe LTSSM at a physical layer level, associated standards, and debug. Most recent experience with PCIe 4.0 at a minimum, some experience with 5.0/CXL preferred
- Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems
- Technical ownership of issue resolution: Driving and directing internal teams, and driving communication to customers through FAE and sales teams

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