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.
Job Description
We are looking for Principal Design Verification Engineers with proven experience in all aspects of verification in UVM and C/C++. The candidate must have experience using high level programming languages such as C/C++ to communicate with System Verilog and/or UVM based environments to aid RTL simulation, CoSimulation and Emulation.
Basic qualifications:
- Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE is
required, and a Maser’s is preferred. - ≥8 years’ experience supporting or developing complex high-speed SerDes/silicon products for Server, Storage, and/or
Networking applications. - Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, to plan and prepare for
customer meetings in advance, 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 US and start immediately.
Required Experience
- Experience with integrating Matlab/Simulink/C/C++ in System Verilog environments using DPI/PLI
- Ability to use scripting tools (Perl/Python) to automate verification infrastructure.
- Experience in developing infrastructure and tests in a hybrid directed and constrained random
environments - Must be able to work independently to develop test-plans, and related test-sequences in UVM to
generate stimuli and work collaboratively with RTL designers to debug failures. - Develop user-controlled random constraints in transaction-based verification methodology. Experience
writing assertions, cover properties and analyzing coverage data - Must have prior experience on End-to-End Mix-Signal SerDes verification with channel modeling and compliance testing.
- Must have prior experience on verification with firmware to control and configure the SerDes and related components.
Preferred Experience
- SW debugging for Mix-Signal based designs.
- Experience with PHY layer verification in PCIe, Ethernet, and/or UAL.
- Experience with FPGA-based verification/emulation.
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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Astera Labs Santa Clara, California, USA Office
Santa Clara, CA, United States, 95054
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