Director Engineering Operations

Location: Taipei / Hsinchu Taiwan

Job Description: 

As an Astera Labs Product and Test Engineer, you will support the new product introductions and existing products already in HVM (high volume manufacturing) at our Asia OSAT partners. Being an expert at running standards based qualification, developing ATE program test coverage, running ATE characterization, using statistical analysis for limit setting and releasing devices into production are part of the skillsets needed. The ideal candidate will also need to support devices released into production by maintaining smooth manufacturing flow and examining product yields (both wafer sort and final test) to ensure on-time customer shipments. The ideal candidate also possesses breadth of industry experience in high-speed product development in the field of product and test engineering, can apply fundamentals in circuit, ATE, and test program development to aid problem solving, and is a self-driven, result focused go-getter in the pursuit of goals and objectives.  

 Basic qualifications: 

• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in the field of post silicon product development dealing with high-speed XCVR (product, test or validation). 

• Experience in working with PCIe Gen4 and above. 

• Managing a product and test team with the focus on delivering consistent results. 

• Experience defining and running standards based qualification (both product and package) 

• Strong academic/technical background in electrical or computer engineering; Bachelor’s is required; MS preferred. 

• Strong problem-solving skills that involve system level analysis with test hardware, test program and DUT.  

• Digital and analog circuit level understanding for DUT.  

• Excellent team player with great communication skills. 

• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks. 

Required experience: 

• Managing and building a strong team of product and test engineers that will compliment the existing US based product and test engineers 

• Proven track record continuing seamless production of semiconductor products partnering with OSATs supporting high volume manufacturing through the complete product lifecycle 

• Hands on experience with using the Advantest 93k ATE platform with specific skills developing and revising ATE test programs for wafer sort and final test solutions 

• Hands-on knowledge of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes protocols like PCIe (Gen4 and above), Ethernet (25G and above), etc. and/or memory interfaces such as (LP)DDR5/4. 

• 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 
• Energetic work mindset meeting the demands of shipping quality parts to Astera Labs’ customers through the manufacturing stage of development 

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. 

• Hands on experience in product/package qualification