# Principal Emulation Engineer at Astera Labs

- Company: Astera Labs
- What the company does: Astera Labs: Purpose-Built Connectivity for Rack-Scale AI.
- Company website: https://www.asteralabs.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $207K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteralabs/jobs/4730620005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/astera-labs-principal-emulation-engineer/

## About the role

As a Principal Emulation Engineer, you will build and operate emulation environments that let verification teams stress-test complex ASICs before silicon. You’ll partner closely with design, verification, firmware, and systems engineers to model hardware-software interactions, exercise high-speed protocols, and isolate issues across RTL, transactors, test environments, and code. Your hands-on leadership will turn difficult debug problems into actionable fixes and improve confidence in each product milestone.

## What they're looking for

- Emulation and Prototyping
- Architect, build, and maintain emulation environments for complex ASICs and SoCs
- Integrate RTL, transactors, protocol models, software, and test infrastructure to enable meaningful hardware-software co-simulation
- Enable verification teams to stress-test designs with scalable, repeatable emulation workflows
- Develop reusable models, utilities, and debug methodologies that accelerate pre-silicon validation
- Protocol and SoC Verification

Tags: Advanced DV & Emulation CCE1