Senior/Staff Physical Design Engineer

<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 an Astera Labs <strong>Senior/Staff Physical Design Engineer</strong> you will play a crucial role in overseeing the planning, coordination, and execution supporting the design of Astera Labs' portfolio of connectivity ASICs used in the world's leading cloud service providers, server and network OEMs. To accomplish that, you will work closely with designers, verification engineering, and engineering operations. This role is fully on-site and in-person.</p> <p>Basic Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li>Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. A Bachelor’s degree in EE / Computer is required, and a Master’s degree is preferred.</li> <li>≥3 years’ experience supporting or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage, and/or Networking applications.</li> <li>Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, plan and prepare for customer meetings in advance, and work with minimal guidance and supervision. </li> <li>Entrepreneurial, open-mind behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act fast with the customer in mind!</li> </ul> <p>Required Experience:</p> <ul> <li>Hands-on and thorough knowledge of synthesis, place and route, timing, extraction, EM-IR, formal verification (equivalence) and other backend tools and methodologies for technologies 7nm or less.</li> <li>Block level ownership from architecture to GDSII, driving multiple complex designs to production.</li> <li>Experience with Cadence and/or Synopsys physical design too