# Product Application Engineer PCIe/CXL 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: Mid level
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $185K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteralabs/jobs/4725542005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/astera-labs-product-application-engineer-pcie-cxl/

## About the role

As an Astera Labs Principal Product Application Engineer , you will need to provide technical guidance to customers 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.

## 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 3 years’ experience in 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!
- Full professional proficiency in Mandarin (written and spoken) required to communicate directly with Asia region customer contacts
- Strong working knowledge of PCIe LTSSM at a physical layer level, associated standards, and debug. Most recent experience with PCIe 5.0 at a minimum, some experience with 6.0/CXL preferred
- Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems

Tags: Signal Connectivity Group (US_SCG)