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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