Principal Hardware Electrical Validation Engineer

Astera Labs(1 month ago)

San Jose, CAOnsiteFull TimeSenior$185,000 - $230,000Hardware Engineering

About this role

The Principal Hardware Electrical Validation Engineer leads electrical validation of PCBAs and hardware products, ensuring designs are de-risked from project kickoff through release. This role partners with hardware design, system validation, and post-silicon teams to define validation approaches, introduce test standards and equipment, and maintain lab capabilities. The position focuses on hands-on lab bring-up, debugging, and improving validation processes to ensure product readiness.

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Required Skills

Circuit Analysis
Hardware Test
Test Methodologies
Board Bringup
Debugging
Component Rework
Test Equipment
Fixture Design
Lab Automation
Python

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Qualifications

BS in Electrical Engineering

About Astera Labs

asteralabs.com

Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that builds purpose‑built connectivity silicon and system solutions for rack‑scale AI and modern data centers. They design high‑speed retimers, PHY/connectivity devices, interposers and companion firmware/software that extend signal reach, improve link reliability, and enable PCIe/CXL and other accelerator interconnects across cables and backplanes. Astera’s products add telemetry, error monitoring and management features to simplify integration for OEMs, cloud providers and hyperscalers. The company focuses on enabling scalable, low‑latency multi‑node AI training and inference systems.