# Principal FW/SW Engineer at Asteralabs

- Company: Asteralabs
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Level: Principal
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Skills: CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe, UALink
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteralabs/jobs/4739524005

## Description

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 . 
 Principal Engineer – Embedded Firmware & Software 
 Location: Toronto or Ottawa, Ontario (Remote) 
 Travel: Occasional travel to Astera Labs’ San Jose headquarters, approximately twice per year, for chip bring-up and project coordination 
 Employment: Full-time 
 Role Overview 
 Join Astera Labs’ Signal Connectivity Engineering team as a Principal Engineer shaping the firmware and software that makes advanced connectivity products adaptive, reliable, and production-ready . You will own embedded software across analog connectivity and Ethernet retimer platforms, from low-level hardware abstraction and calibration through link management, diagnostics, validation, and customer deployment. 
 This is a high-impact role at the intersection of embedded systems, mixed-signal hardware, and Ethernet physical-layer be

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