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Astera Labs

Principal Digital Design Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$185K - $230K/yr

Role Overview Join Astera Labs as a Principal Digital Design Engineer to architect and implement next-generation digital designs for high-performance AI connectivity solutions. You'll own complex ...

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Digital Design Engineer

Los Angeles, CA

$146K/yr

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Principal Digital Design Engineer

San Jose, CA

Astera Labs
Semiconductor and Electronic Component Manufacturing • 11 - 50 employees
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$185K - $230K/yr

Full-time

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Role Overview

Join Astera Labs as a Principal Digital Design Engineer to architect and implement next-generation digital designs for high-performance AI connectivity solutions. You'll own complex blocks from micro-architecture through silicon bring-up, driving RTL implementation and collaborating with verification, physical design, and DFT teams to deliver production-quality silicon supporting PCIe Gen 6/7, CXL, UALink, UCI, Ethernet, and DDR4/DDR5 protocols.

This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology at the forefront of AI infrastructure, taking ownership of critical design challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your contributions directly impact products deployed by the world's leading hyperscalers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design Ownership & Execution
    • Develop and implement complex digital blocks and subsystems by defining micro-architecture and driving RTL implementation with an exceptional power, performance and area trade-off using silicon technologies better than 7nm.
    • Lead efforts to achieve timing closure and implement Design-for-Test (DFT) features for optimal design performance
    • Drive designs to production, ensuring accountability for quality, schedule, and overall design success
  • Verification & Integration
    • Collaborate with verification teams to develop test plans, achieve coverage closure, and debug complex issues
    • Own third-party IP integration and block-level verification through sign-off
    • Work closely with post-silicon teams to facilitate silicon bring-up and debug
  • Technical Leadership
    • Mentor junior engineers to develop their technical skills and expertise
    • Actively contribute to the development and improvement of silicon development processes
    • Drive design methodology improvements and CAD automation initiatives

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience developing complex SoC/silicon products in Server, Storage, and/or Networking markets
  • Expertise in architecture definition, micro-architecture development, RTL coding, functional simulation, and synthesis
  • Strong understanding of timing closure, gate-level simulation (GLS), and DFT implementation
  • Deep expertise in at least one high-speed protocol: PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, DDR, or similar
  • Production experience with advanced CMOS nodes (7nm)
  • Proficiency with Cadence and/or Synopsys digital design flows

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • Track record of delivering multiple high-performance designs to production in data-center environments
  • Hands-on collaboration with embedded firmware teams; understanding of firmware development challenges
  • Familiarity with standard embedded processor subsystems (RISC-V, Arm, etc.)
  • Proven contributions to design methodology, CAD automation, or design infrastructure

Salary range is $185,000 to $230,000 depending on experience, level, and business need. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonus, incentives and benefits

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