asteralabs
Firmware Engineer Tech Lead
At a Glance
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Compensation
- roducts. Base salary range is $160,000 to $200,000 depending on experience, leve
- Department
- Silicon Engineering SCE
- Posted
- 2026-07-16T19:27:25-04:00
Key Requirements
Domain Knowledge
- Embedded Systems
- Engineering
Requirements
Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering.
Minimum 5 years’ experience supporting or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage, and/or Networking applications.
Experience developing firmware to execute in on-chip microcontrollers as well as C-language software development kits (SDKs) to execute on system management controllers (e.g.
Experience working with logic designers to architect and verify HW-SW interfaces on complex SoCs.
Think and act fast with the customer in mind!
Experience with PAM4 SerDes with working knowledge of Tx/Rx equalization, adaptation, CDR and SerDes link budgets.
Responsibilities
The mission of this role is to architect and develop firmware and microcontroller subsystems for Astera Labs’ SoC and systems products.
Firmware Engineer Tech Lead
you are responsible for implementing the major differentiating features of Astera Labs’ products.
As such, firmware is considered equally important to the hardware, and the firmware team is often customer-facing accordingly to ensure the needs of the customer are fully comprehended.