# Principal Digital Design Engineer

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 Digital Design Engineers with experience developing micro-architecture and implementation of the front-end circuit design, including RTL, synthesis, IP integration, and block-level verification for high performance network controllers. The candidate must have good knowledge of communication/interface protocols such as PCI-Express (Gen-3 and above), Ualink, Esun, Ethernet et

- **Id**: 3788512
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astera-labs-principal-digital-design-engineer-6>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-14T14:40:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T01:14:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 22
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3115
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Servers & Data Center Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 178069
- **Name**: Astera Labs
- **Domain**: asteralabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/astera-labs-2>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 50
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.52
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 78
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 240000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 240000

## Technologies

- **NVLink** — Optional: no
- **UVM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 22

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T04:57:18Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 77 · green card filings: 7; Filings 12m: 77; Filings prev 12m: 50; Green card filings 12m: 7

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 21
- **Expected fill days**: 78
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 240000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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