Production/Test Engineer

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI. Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity. The company’s custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements. Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.

Astera Labs Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company who is a leader in developing purpose-built connectivity solutions that remove performance bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. To support rapid international business growth, we are hiring Production/Test Engineer who is based in Suzhou area and have experience supporting the development and manufacturing in semiconductor products for high-speed communication protocols like PCIe, Ethernet, Infiniband, DDR, NVMe, USB, etc.

Job Description:

As the Production/Test Engineer, you will report to Head of PCBA manufacturing. In this role, you will be responsible for PCBA / outsourcing manufacture production management, testing and validation, troubleshooting and issue resolution in production lines. Collaborate with quality organization, engineering team on manufacturing process management and functional validation.

Basic qualifications:

• BS in manufacturing, operations, electrical engineering (or other disciplines directly related to manufacturing). Master’s degree is
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working or managing in manufacturing process (SMT, Assembly, testing, sustaining, PCBA debugging, and functional test)
• Experience working with/managing world-class CMs
• Customer-oriented, Goal-driven, Self-motivated, be able to work independently and be able to travel frequently (25% travel).
• Fluent in Mandarin and English

Required experience:

• Strong understanding of CM manufacturing processes
• Strong understanding of production quality control processes
• Strong understanding of manufacturing and functional test
• Experience collaborating with remote design team and manufacturing for production management
• Experience w/ Agile, Arena, or other PLM tools

Preferred qualification:

• Prior experience in NPI/Test/Quality/Supply Chain or other relevant disciplines
• Expertise in Arena PLM
• Working knowledge of reading / understanding schematics, layout files
• Experience w/ MFG outside Asia

We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.