Post-Silicon Validation Engineer jobs in Israel

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. We are looking for a Post-Silicon Validation Engineer with strong hands-on experience in PCIe link bring-up, physical-layer debug, and silicon validation. Engineer will work closely with Design, Architecture, Firmware, Software, Engineering teams. Key Responsibilities • Perform hands-on post-silicon validation • Debug PCIe link issues including link training, LTSSM, equalization, recovery, resets, and link stability. • Analyze PCIe state-machine traces, protocol traces, registers, logs, eye diagrams, and lab measurements. • Drive complex issues from initial failure through root-cause analysis and final resolution. • Work closely with silicon, firmware, software, architecture, and signal-integrity engineers to isolate issues across HW/FW/SW boundaries. • Validate PCIe functionality across different generations, platforms, configurations, and operating conditions. • Develop and execute PCIe validation plans, stress tests, corner-case scenarios, and interoperability tests. • Develop automation to improve validation coverage, debug efficiency, and regression testing. Required Qualifications • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience. • 5+ years of engineering experience in silicon validation, post-silicon debug, or high-speed interface development. • Strong hands-on knowledge of PCIe architecture and protocol. • Experience working with PCIe analyzers, state traces, registers, logs, eye diagrams, and/or signal-integrity measurements. • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to independently drive issues to root cause. • Experience working across hardware, firmware, and software boundaries. • Good scripting/programming skills, preferably Python • Good Linux knowledge and experience with Linux PCIe debug tools. • Strong communication and collaboration skills. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6/Gen7 • Hands-on experience with PCIe PHY, SerDes, equalization, lane margining, or signal integrity. • Experience with PCIe compliance and interoperability testing. • Experience debugging intermittent, marginal, thermal-sensitive, or corner-case PCIe failures. • Experience with PCIe switches, or networking/accelerator platforms. • Practical experience using AI/ML tools for engineering debug and automation. 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.

Who We Are The Silicon One team creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world. What You Will Do As a SW Post-Silicon Validation Engineer you will be operating at the critical junction between firmware, device drivers, and silicon validation, you will design scalable software solutions, automated frameworks, and tools to stress and validate chip functionality across PVT corners. • Develop automated regression suites for functional validation, traffic stress testing, and characterization to proactively detect and root-cause critical issues across switching and routing Silicon One devices. • Develop and maintain Python-based test frameworks, automated test suites, and validation libraries. • Implement software to interact with low-level device drivers, register maps, and high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, I2C, SPI). • Debug hardware-software interactions and silicon anomalies in the lab alongside RTL, Firmware, Hardware and other teams. • Analyze validation logs, parse performance datasets, and track test coverage progress through closure. Minimum Qualifications • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent. • 3+ years of practical experience in embedded software: ASIC bring-up, test automation, or post-silicon validation. • Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming (OOP)and design (OOD), applied to test development, data analysis, and lab equipment automation. • Understanding of Git version control practices and collaborative workflows, including branching, merging, and code reviews. Preferred Qualifications • Knowledge of C/C++ for low-level driver or firmware interaction. • Experience in validating high-speed networking ASICs or Ethernet PHYs. • Experience working with Linux, device drivers, or memory-mapped I/O. • Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, including how automated pipelines build, test, and run regression suites. • Hands-on experience debugging hardware-software interactions on physical boards in a lab environment. • Automate lab testbenches and high-speed test instruments (oscilloscopes, BERTs, power supplies, thermal chambers) using Python and VISA/SCPI. • Familiarity with hardware communication interfaces and register maps (e.g., PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, I2C, SPI, UART). • Clear technical communication in English and Hebrew. Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

What You'll Do You’ll be joining the post silicon validation team in PHY system group at Cisco Silicon One group as part of the silicon development at Cisco . Our team deals with PHY and system aspects of the SerDes communication IP: PHY FW, calibrations, system definitions and operations and post-silicon validation including developing the automation infrastructure and tools. We use latest silicon technologies and processes to build the largest scale and most complex devices at the edge of feasibility. Who You'll Work With You'll be part of our Group driving our game changing next generation network devices - Cisco Silicon One. Our unique team works in a startup atmosphere inside a stable and leading corporation. The position includes hands on work in our lab in Caesarea and Netanya. Our design center is unique - hosting all silicon HW and SW development disciplines inside one site. We are transforming the industry and building a new internet for the 5G era, providing a unified, programmable silicon architecture that is the foundation of all Cisco's future routing products. Our devices are designed to be universally adaptable across service providers and web-scale markets, designed for fixed and modular platforms. Our devices deliver high speed without sacrificing programmability, buffering, power efficiency, scale or feature flexibility. Cisco Silicon One is a revolutionary, ground-breaking technology for our customers and end users for decades to come! The Internet now has a new faster, better, safer engine! Minimum Qualifications • B.Sc or M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent • Experience in PHY/SerDes validation (high‑speed SerDes characterization, link stability, PVT corners) and/or other PHY layer of communication systems • Proven ability in system‑level debugging to isolate faults across HW/SW/Silicon • Strong scripting/programming skills in Python or C++ • Practical experience with lab instrumentation: oscilloscopes, BERTs, spectrum analyzers Preferred Qualifications • Knowledge of signal processing / communication theory (DSP, modulation, link‑layer communication) • Linux proficiency, Git, and experience with Jenkins/DevOps automation frameworks • GUI development experience and database familiarity • Understanding of PCIe and Ethernet standards • System orientation with a multi‑disciplinary approach and strong multitasking capability Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.