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Senior/Staff Electronics Engineer - Board Validation

Astera Labs
San Jose, USAfull_timePosted 25 Jun 2026

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span data-teams="true">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 <a id="menurhut" class="fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" href="http://www.asteralabs.com/" target="_blank">www.asteralabs.com</a>.</span></p></div><p>As a <strong>Senior/Staff Electronics Engineer </strong>you will join the Hardware Electrical Validation team at Astera Labs, linking between the Hardware Electrical Design teams and Post-Silicon Electrical Validation teams, among others. </p> <p>Note: This role is not post-silicon electrical validation; it is electrical validation of PCBAs and related hardware products.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Support the Hardware Electrical Design teams with de-risking circuits and modules from project kick-off to gerber out.</li> <li>Develop comprehensive hardware electrical validation plans using correct test methods and processes.</li> <li>Bring up the PCBAs upon arrival in the lab, and execute the electrical validation plans to validate all circuits on the board.</li> <li>Debug complex multi-point failures in hardware - power regulators, DPMs, clock synthesizers, digital control paths, I2C, SPI, etc.   </li> <li>Rework components on the PCBAs to unblock debugging activities.</li> <li>Pre-empt and de-risk system validation architectures - collaborate with the System Validation teams.</li> <li>Support hardware activities in auxiliary teams - Post-Silicon Electrical Validation, Product Apps, System Validation, FAEs, etc.</li> <li>Support the new designs using knowledge of existing products to de-risk new features and requirements.</li> <li>Self-informed of new industry test standards and equipment to introduce modern testing methodol

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