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Principal Emulation Engineer

Asteralabs
Full Timeprincipal
San Jose, CAPosted 17 days ago

Role Overview

Asteralabs is hiring a Principal Emulation Engineer. This is a full-time role in San Jose. Part of Asteralabs's Qa hiring, posted 2 weeks ago. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

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Job description

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI. Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity. The company’s custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements. Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.

We are looking for a Principal Emulation Engineer with hands-on experience verifying protocols on complex ASICs and experience with or interest in emulation.  The ideal candidate would be at ease creating environments to enable verification teams to stress test ASICs, as well as debugging design, environment, transactor, and code issues.  The candidate must have good knowledge of communication protocols such as PCI-Express (Gen-3 and above), DDR, Ethernet, NVMe, or similar interfaces.

Basic qualifications:

  • Strong academic and technical background in computer/electrical engineering. At a minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE or Computer Science is required, and a Master’s is preferred.
  • ≥8 years’ experience supporting or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage or Networking applications.
  • Experience working with logic designers to architect, specify, and verify hardware-software interfaces on complex SoCs.
  • Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks and to work with minimal guidance and supervision.
  • Entrepreneurial, open-mind behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act fast with the customer in mind!
  • Authorized to work in the US and start immediately.

Required experience:

  • Working knowledge of PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, SPI, I2C/I3C or similar protocols.
  • High level of proficiency in System Verilog and verification environments.
  • Experience understanding software and hardware co-simulation limitations and debug methods.
  • Experience in programming and scripting languages (like perl/python/C).
  • Currently based locally or open to relocation.

Preferred experience:

  • Experience in emulation and prototyping technologies like Palladium/Zebu/Veloce or HAPS and FPGA prototyping.
  • Experience in modeling for emulation and prototyping, and/or non-UVM environments

The base salary range is $209,000.00 USD – $230,000.00 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.  

We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.

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This position is based in San Jose. Asteralabs has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.

What does a Principal Emulation Engineer at Asteralabs earn?

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When was the Principal Emulation Engineer role at Asteralabs posted?

This role was posted on June 25, 2026 (17 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.

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