Principal Emulation Engineer is open at Astera Labs in San Jose, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $207K - $230K. Posted on Sep 9, 2026, and still on Astera Labs’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
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…
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