HVM Product Engineering Manager - Astera Labs

As an Astera Labs HVM Product Engineering Manager, you will lead develop and lead the global High Volume Manufacturing team. Being able to produce quality semiconductor products to meet our customers’ volume and requested ship dates is the main objective. In this role, you will compliment the New Product Introduction Product Engineers as products are released into production and own the engineering manufacturing during mass production.

Basic qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading a high caliber semiconductor product engineering team with a focus on maintaining multiple products during high volume manufacturing
• Minimum of 5 years within a product engineering experience rolling semiconductor devices into production
• Strong academic/technical background in electrical engineering; Bachelor’s is required;
• Proven track record with working across different off shore manufacturing sites (OSATs)
• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks
• Strong team player with excellent communication skills

Required experience:

• Proven track record continuing seamless production of semiconductor products partnering with OSATs supporting high volume manufacturing through the complete product lifecycle
• Energetic work mindset meeting the demands of shipping quality units to Astera Labs’ customers enabling mass production for new products
• Hands on experience with using the Advantest 93k ATE platform
• 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
• Hands-on knowledge of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes protocols like PCIe, Ethernet (25G and above), etc. and/or memory interfaces such as (LP)DDR5/4/3.
• Demonstrated knowledge of common SerDes architecture such as CTLE, DFE, FFE, and DSP.

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.