Astera Labs Inc.
Principal Emulation Engineer
San Jose, California, United States · Principal
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About the role
- Your hands-on leadership will turn difficult debug problems into actionable fixes and improve confidence in each product milestone.
- Astera Labs is accelerating the infrastructure behind AI by delivering purpose-built connectivity solutions for rack-scale systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain emulation environments for complex ASICs and SoCs.
- Enable verification teams to stress-test designs with scalable, repeatable emulation workflows.
- Develop reusable models, utilities, and debug methodologies that accelerate pre-silicon validation.
- Debug design, environment, transactor, software, and test-code issues across the emulation stack.
- As a Principal Emulation Engineer, you will build and operate emulation environments that let verification teams stress-test complex ASICs before silicon.
Skills
- Emulation and Prototyping
- Integrate RTL, transactors, protocol models, software, and test infrastructure to enable meaningful hardware-software co-simulation.
- Protocol and SoC Verification
- Verify hardware-software interfaces and system behaviors in partnership with logic designers, firmware engineers, and verification teams.
- Exercise and debug PCI Express Gen 3 and above, Ethernet, DDR, NVMe, SPI, I2C/I3C, and similar interfaces.
- Analyze protocol behavior, functional coverage, performance, and corner cases across complex server, storage, and networking systems.
- Translate system requirements into practical emulation scenarios, tests, checkers, and measurable verification goals.
- Debug and Technical Leadership
- Identify software and hardware co-simulation limitations and apply effective isolation and debug techniques. <span data-ccp-props="{"33
Company info
- In this role, you'll help validate the switching, PCIe, Ethernet, memory, and storage interfaces that connect the compute fabric-enabling faster bring-up, stronger interoperability, and more reliable platforms as the company scales.
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