Digital Design Engineer Intern (Toronto)

Digital Design Intern (Toronto)

About Astera Labs

The role

What you’ll do

Basic qualifications

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Coursework, project, research, or hands-on experience with digital logic, computer architecture, RTL, or ASIC design.
• Programming or hardware-description-language experience in Verilog, SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python, or a comparable language.
• Familiarity with Linux development environments, command-line tools, and Git or another source-control system.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with an interest in understanding how digital hardware is implemented.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organization, and time-management skills.
• A hands-on work ethic, curiosity, learning agility, and ability to take ownership of assigned deliverables.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience developing RTL modules, finite-state machines, datapaths, control logic, or register interfaces.
• Familiarity with simulation, lint, synthesis, waveform-debug, or ASIC design tools.
• Exposure to clock-domain crossing, reset design, assertions, formal verification, or emulation.
• Familiarity with AXI, APB, PCIe®, CXL®, memory systems, fabrics, controllers, or other high-speed digital interfaces.
• Experience using Python, Tcl, shell scripting, or Make-based workflows to automate design tasks and analyze results.
• Interest in the design of connectivity products used in AI, cloud, server, or networking systems.
• Equal opportunity
• Astera Labs is committed to an inclusive workplace and considers qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics under applicable law.

Equal opportunity

Responsibilities

• Translate design specifications and interface requirements into clear RTL implementations.
• Develop, modify, and review Verilog or SystemVerilog RTL for digital IP blocks and their supporting logic.
• Work with design engineers on microarchitecture, registers, interfaces, clocks, resets, and control logic.
• Run compile, lint, simulation, synthesis, or other design-flow checks and investigate warnings, errors, and generated reports.
• Use Linux command-line tools, Git, scripts, and established repository conventions to manage design work.
• Collaborate with design-verification engineers to clarify intent, reproduce issues, and improve design quality.
• Add or update assertions, constraints, documentation, and design metadata when appropriate.
• Learn and apply clock-domain-crossing, reset, signal-integrity, and hardware/software interface concepts relevant to the design.
• Document design decisions, debug findings, and implementation details for the broader engineering team.