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.
Lead Emulation Engineer
Experience - 6–10 years
Job Summary
We are looking for a Lead Emulation Engineer to lead the deployment and execution of complex SoC/IP verification on hardware emulation platforms. The candidate will work closely with design verification, RTL, architecture, firmware,



and post-silicon teams to accelerate functional verification, software development, performance validation, and system-level debug.
Key Responsibilities
Lead emulation strategy and execution for complex SoC/IP designs.
Develop and maintain emulation environments for large-scale ASIC/SoC designs.
Bring up RTL designs on emulation platforms and debug compilation, mapping, and runtime issues.
Develop and execute emulation-based verification plans.
Enable software and firmware teams to execute workloads on emulated hardware.
Support early software bring-up and system-level validation.
Develop transactors, monitors, BFMs, and other emulation components as required.
Optimize emulation builds for performance, capacity, and compile/runtime efficiency.
Debug functional issues across RTL, testbench, emulation setting, and software.
Work closely with DV teams to migrate suitable simulation-based tests to emulation.
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📌 Lead Emulation Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Astera Labs
📍 Bengaluru