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Principal Emulation Engineer

Astera Labs - San Jose, CA

Posted Sep 9, 2025

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$116,543 national median
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

88% above the BLS national median for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Principal Emulation Engineer San Jose, CA 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

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