STA Physical Design Engineer, Senior Principal is open at Astera Labs in San Jose, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $205K - $260K. Posted on Feb 23, 2026, and still on Astera Labs’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Independently drive PnR activities from RTL to GDS, ensuring robust signoff across complex SoCs or sub-systems. Identify RTL issues early and work with frontend team on resolution. Hands-on experience with various custom clocking techniques. Experience with high-speed designs with serdes/ddr IPs. Good understanding of PnR tool and signoff flows like Extraction, STA, Formality, EM-IR and DRC/LVS etc Hands-on…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Astera Labs’s careers page.
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