Principal Field Applications Engineer - Shanghai Shi, China
Originally posted 24 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves serving as a trusted technical advisor, identifying customer requirements, and proposing Astera Labs' connectivity solutions to cloud service providers and server/network OEMs.
What you'll do
- Identify and understand customer requirements for connectivity products.
- Propose Astera Labs solutions that provide clear value to customers.
- Provide hands-on design-in support for Astera Labs' portfolio.
- Gather customer requirements to define new products.
- Collaborate with leading cloud service providers and server/network OEMs on solution design.
What you'll need
- BS in electrical engineering.
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience working with Cloud service providers and server OEM customers to design in complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage, and/or Networking applications.
- Hands-on, thorough knowledge of high-speed protocols like PCIe, Ethernet, Infiniband, DDR, NVMe, USB.
- Silicon/System bring-up and debug experience in customer systems.
- Experience with lab equipment including protocol analyzers and oscilloscopes.
- Strong background in high-speed board design techniques and understanding of Data Center systems like Servers, JBOGs/JBODs, Networking switches/routers.
- Intermediate level of proficiency in Python for automating system validation and link optimization.
- Able to step through embedded firmware at the SerDes (SoC) or MCU level for debugging.
- Fluent in Mandarin and English.
Nice to have
- Strong working knowledge of a high-speed interface at a physical layer level, associated standards, and debug.
- Experience with 12G NRZ signaling or 25G NRZ/56G PAM4.
- Development, support, and experience with PCIe ICs.
- Experience in embedded SW debug or development with firmware, drivers, and BIOS using PCIe technology.
- Working knowledge of software/firmware build environments, gcc/Make and GitHub.
- Knowledge of simulation/modeling, schematic capture, and PCB layout tools from Cadence, Altium.
- Knowledge of simulation tools such as Keysight ADS, Mathworks QCD for IBIS-AMI analysis.
Skills: FAE, PCIe, Ethernet, high-speed protocols, silicon bring-up, embedded firmware
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 48-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
77
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$183k
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| Metric | Astera Labs | All employers we track in this specialty (77 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 15 | 77 |
| Median days open | 44 d | 48 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $183k |
Skills observed across this category: FAE, PCIe, Ethernet, high-speed protocols, silicon bring-up, embedded firmware
Who's hiring in this category
- Astera Labs (this employer) · 14 open roles · median 72 d
- Synopsys · 14 open roles · median 9 d
- Qualcomm · 7 open roles · median 69 d
- Keysight Technologies · 6 open roles · median 27 d
- Broadcom · 4 open roles · median 55 d
- Microchip Technology · 4 open roles · median 40 d
How we counted: 77 open Applications FAE (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.