Principal Physical Design Engineer (STA)

As an Astera Labs Principal Physical Design Engineer (STA) you will play a crucial role in driving the planning, coordination, and execution supporting the design of Astera Labs' portfolio of connectivity ASICs used in the world's leading cloud service providers, server and network OEMs. To accomplish that, you will work closely with designers, verification engineering, and engineering operations. This role is fully on-site and in-person.

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. A bachelor's degree in EE / Computer Science is required, and a master's degree is preferred.
• ≥12 years’ experience supporting or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage, and/or Networking applications.
• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, plan and prepare for customer meetings in advance, and work with minimal guidance and supervision. 
• Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and a can-do attitude. Think and act fast with the customer in mind!

Required Experience:

• Proven expertise in developing/maintaining timing constraints, timing signoff methodology, and timing closure at the block and full-chip level.
• Hands-on and thorough knowledge of synthesis, place and route, timing, extraction, formal verification (equivalence) and other backend tools and methodologies for technologies 7nm or less.
• Full chip or block level ownership from architecture to GDSII, driving multiple complex designs to production.
• Experience with Cadence and/or Synopsys physical design tools/flows.
• Familiarity and working knowledge of System Verilog/Verilog.
• Experience with DFT tools and techniques.
• Experience in working with IP vendors for both RTL and hard-macro blocks.
• Good scripting skills in tcl, python, or Perl.

Preferred Experience:

• Good knowledge of design for test (DFT), stuck-at and transition scan test insertion.
• Familiarity with DFT test coverage and debug.
• Familiarity with ECO methodologies and tools.

The base salary range is USD 209,000.00 USD – USD 250,000.00. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.