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Astera Labs

Principal Digital Design Engineer (AI Fabric)

$185K–$230K

San Jose, CA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Dec 30, 2025

Location
San Jose, CA
California
Experience
8+ years.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.

About the job

Architects and implements complex digital designs for high-performance connectivity products, from micro-architecture through production and silicon bring-up.

What you'll do

  • Define micro-architecture and develop complex digital blocks and subsystems; drive designs to production.
  • Collaborate with verification, physical design, and DFT teams on coverage, debug, timing closure, and DFT implementation.
  • Support silicon bring-up and debug, mentor junior engineers, and improve silicon development processes.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience developing complex SoC/silicon products in Server, Storage, and/or Networking markets.
  • Experience with RTL design, timing closure, DFT, advanced CMOS nodes (≤7nm), and block ownership from architecture through GDS.
  • Deep expertise in at least one high-speed protocol; proficiency with Cadence and/or Synopsys digital design flows; familiarity with UVM-based verification.

Nice to have

  • Track record delivering multiple high-performance designs to production in data-center environments.
  • Experience collaborating with embedded firmware teams, standard embedded processor subsystems, or design methodology/CAD automation.

Pay

$185,000.00 USD – $230,000.00 USD base salary

Tools

RTL, Cadence, Synopsys, UVM, PCIe, Ethernet, Infiniband, DDR

AI focus

Designs high-performance connectivity solutions that support AI infrastructure.

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