Astera Labs
Principal Emulation Engineer
$209K–$230K
San Jose, CA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2025
- Location
- San Jose, CA
California - Experience
- ≥8 years’ experience supporting or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage or Networking applications.
- Education
- Bachelor’s in EE or Computer Science required; Master’s preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Authorized to work in the US and start immediately.
About the job
Develops and supports emulation environments for verifying and stress-testing complex ASICs and communication protocols, including debugging design, environment, transactor, and code issues.
What you'll do
- Create environments that enable verification teams to stress-test ASICs.
- Work with logic designers to architect, specify, and verify hardware-software interfaces on complex SoCs.
- Debug design, environment, transactor, code, and hardware-software co-simulation issues.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in EE or Computer Science.
- At least 8 years supporting or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage or Networking applications.
- Working knowledge of PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, SPI, I2C/I3C or similar protocols; high proficiency in System Verilog and verification environments.
- Experience with hardware-software co-simulation limitations and debugging, and programming or scripting languages such as perl/python/C.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree.
- Emulation or prototyping experience with Palladium/Zebu/Veloce, HAPS, FPGA prototyping, emulation modeling, or non-UVM environments.
Pay
$209,000.00 USD – $230,000.00 USD (base salary)
Tools
PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, SPI, I2C/I3C, System Verilog, perl/python/C, Palladium/Zebu/Veloce
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