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Senior Design Verification Engineer
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Senior Design Verification Engineer at Astera Labs builds and validates complex connectivity silicon for AI infrastructure, developing UVM-based verification environments and collaborating with RTL designers across simulation, co-simulation, and emulation.
About this role
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.
Role Overview
As a Senior Design Verification Engineer, you will help build and validate complex connectivity silicon that enables the next generation of AI infrastructure. You will develop scalable verification environments, integrate UVM and C/C++ workflows, and partner closely with RTL designers to identify and resolve issues across simulation, co-simulation, and emulation.
This is an opportunity to contribute across the verification lifecycle at a hyper-growth connectivity company. Your work will help deliver reliable, high-bandwidth products that connect CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage, and networking devices in rack-scale AI systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Verification Architecture and Planning
- Build and maintain UVM-based verification environments using SystemVerilog and C/C++ integration through DPI/PLI.
- Translate design specifications into verification plans, test strategies, and reusable test sequences.
- Develop VIP abstraction layers that simplify and scale verification across projects and platforms.
- Stimulus, Assertions, and Coverage
- Create directed and constrained-random tests, transaction-level sequences, and user-controlled random constraints.
- Write assertions and cover properties, analyze coverage data, and drive closure against verification goals.
- Automate verification infrastructure and regression workflows using Python or Perl.
- Debug and Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with RTL designers and other engineers to isolate, debug, and resolve failures across simulation, co-simulation, and FPGA-based emulation.
- Apply third-party verification IP to validate protocols including PCIe, Ethernet, InfiniBand, DDR, NVMe, and USB.
- Contribute to technical reviews, communicate verification status clearly, and manage priorities across multiple deliverables.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 2 - 5 years of experience developing or verifying complex SoC or silicon products.
- Hands-on experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, and C/C++ in production verification environments.
- Experience integrating C/C++ with SystemVerilog environments using DPI or PLI.
- Experience developing verification infrastructure and tests in directed and constrained-random environments.
- Strong debugging, prioritization, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Authorized to work in Canada.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience verifying PCIe across the physical, link, and transaction layers.
- Experience with DDR4, DDR5, or HBM memory technologies.
- Experience with FPGA-based verification or emulation.
- Experience verifying Ethernet protocols across the PMA, PCS and MAC layers.
- Experience debugging SoC software, including kernels, device drivers, or U-Boot.
- Familiarity with verification IP from third-party vendors and protocol-level modeling.
- Self-directed, adaptable approach with a strong focus on quality, execution, and customer impact.
We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.
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