Senior/Staff Physical Design Engineer

Astera Labs(6 days ago)

San Jose, CAOnsiteFull TimeSenior$135,000 - $195,000Engineering

About this role

A Senior/Staff Physical Design Engineer at Astera Labs will oversee planning, coordination, and execution of physical design activities for the company’s connectivity ASIC portfolio used by cloud service providers and OEMs. The role collaborates closely with designers, verification engineering, and engineering operations to drive designs from architecture to tape-out. This position is fully on-site and in-person.

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Required Skills

Synthesis
Place And Route
Timing Closure
Extraction
EM-IR
Formal Verification
Cadence
Synopsys
SystemVerilog
DFT

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Qualifications

BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering
MS Preferred

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.