Junior Design Verification Engineer

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

Astera Labs is establishing a strategic R&D center in Israel to drive the development of complex semiconductor chips that solve the critical 'data bottlenecks' enabling the future of AI at scale. As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a talented Junior Design Verification Engineer to help build our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up. This is an exciting opportunity to take on meaningful ownership in a new site, developing the verification environments that ensure our next-generation AI silicon performs flawlessly.

As a Junior Design Verification Engineer, you will be a vital contributor to the quality and reliability of our Israel R&D center. You will work on the front lines of functional verification, developing testbenches and environments that validate high-performance digital blocks, subsystems, and full-chip designs. You will tackle complex verification challenges that ensure our connectivity solutions meet the rigorous demands of the world's largest AI clusters. If you thrive on solving technical puzzles and want to play a key role in delivering cutting-edge AI infrastructure connectivity, this is your opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

Verification Environment Development

Contribute to the design and development of ASIC verification environments, focusing on unit-level and subsystem functional blocks
Develop and maintain SystemVerilog/UVM-based components including traffic generators, monitors, and checkers to ensure robust testing
Execute detailed verification plans for challenging digital designs, ensuring all functional requirements are met and verified
Coverage & Quality Assurance
Implement functional coverage models and analyze results to identify gaps in the verification process
Drive designs toward 100% verification closure through comprehensive test development
Contribute to verification methodology improvements and best practices
Debug & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with design engineers to identify, root-cause, and resolve complex hardware bugs early in the development cycle
Apply analytical skills and debugging techniques to solve intricate verification challenges
Collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented R&D environment

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• Strong understanding of Digital Logic and at least one programming language (C/C++ or Python)
• Basic familiarity with Verilog or SystemVerilog from academic projects or lab work
• A natural curiosity for "breaking things" and finding bugs, with a strong attention to detail
• Fluent in Hebrew and English with the ability to work effectively in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Basic proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Tcl to automate verification tasks

Any prior exposure to UVM/OVM or constrained-random verification is a major plus

Basic understanding of protocols like PCIe, Ethernet, or DDR

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.