Astera Labs
Principal / Senior Principal Electrical Design Engineer
$185K–$240K
San Jose, California, United States +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
California - Experience
- 12+ years of progressive hardware design experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field; advanced degree preferred.
About the job
Leads architecture, design, validation, and technical strategy for board-level hardware across high-performance networking and connectivity platforms, from concept through production.
What you'll do
- Set board architecture, technical roadmaps, design standards, and power-delivery strategies across product lines.
- Own and review complex PCB designs; lead platform bring-up, validation, debug, and corrective actions.
- Guide cross-functional technical decisions, mentor engineers, and represent hardware engineering in reviews and customer engagements.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.
- 12+ years of progressive hardware design experience, including technical leadership across multiple product generations.
- Production hardware architecture and delivery experience for server, networking, storage, or high-performance compute systems; hands-on PCIe Gen5/Gen6 and 400G/800G Ethernet design experience.
- Expert signal-integrity and power-integrity knowledge; mastery of schematic capture and PCB tools such as Cadence Allegro or OrCAD.
Nice to have
- Experience with NIC, accelerator, or server chassis/system-board design; 800G Ethernet or emerging 1.6T interfaces.
- Experience with retimers, compliance workflows, manufacturing ramp, or Python scripting and automation.
Pay
$185,000 - $240,000 USD base salary
Tools
PCIe Gen5/Gen6, 400G/800G Ethernet, Cadence Allegro, OrCAD, I2C, SPI, GPIO, MDIO
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