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# HR Business Partner at Astera Labs

- **Company:** Astera Labs
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-03-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteralabs/jobs/4678168005

## Job description

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](http://www.asteralabs.com/).

Astera Labs is seeking an HR Business Partner to join our People team in San Jose, CA. In this role, you will support Astera’s G&A functions and smaller engineering groups, serving as a trusted advisor, coach, and partner to leaders, managers, and employees. This is an excellent opportunity to build your business partnership skills across multiple client groups in a fast-growing semiconductor company.

You will bring solid HRBP/Generalist experience, foundational employee relations skills, and working knowledge of US labor and employment law to help ensure our people practices are effective and compliant as we scale. This role is key to supporting the talent strategies, people leader development, and organizational health that enable Astera’s corporate functions and engineering teams to thrive. As you grow in the role, there will be opportunities to expand your client portfolio and take on larger, more complex business groups.

## Key Responsibilities

- Business Partnership & Coaching

Serve as a reliable partner to G&A and small engineering people leaders, providing day-to-day coaching on people management, team dynamics, and leadership fundamentals

Build strong, trusting relationships with employees and managers, ensuring accessible and credible HR support across your client groups

Coach managers on performance conversations, career development discussions, feedback delivery, and navigating common team challenges

Develop an understanding of the unique demands of semiconductor product development and corporate functions to deliver practical people solutions

Support the onboarding and integration of new managers within your client groups

- Employee Relations & Compliance

Serve as a point of contact for employee relations matters across your client groups, handling investigations, performance issues, interpersonal conflict, and conduct concerns with professionalism and care

Apply working knowledge of US labor and employment law—including federal, state, and local regulations—to advise leaders and support compliant people decisions, escalating complex matters to senior HRBPs or Employment Counsel as appropriate

Conduct fair, thorough, and well-documented workplace investigations, partnering with senior HR team members and Legal on higher-risk matters

Help identify compliance risks and partner with HR Operations to ensure policies, practices, and manager actions align with legal requirements

Stay current on evolving employment legislation and regulatory changes, surfacing relevant updates to the broader HR team

Provide clear, empathetic, and sound guidance to managers navigating terminations, leaves of absence, accommodations, and other sensitive situations, with support from senior partners on complex cases

- Talent Strategy & Organizational Effectiveness

Support leaders in your client groups on organizational design, role clarity, and team structure to enable effective execution

Contribute to talent reviews, retention planning, and succession planning for roles within your groups, partnering with senior HRBPs on cross-functional initiatives

Assist with headcount planning and workforce decisions, helping leaders balance near-term needs with longer-term capability building

Identify talent risks early and work proactively with leaders to address retention and engagement challenges within your client groups

- Performance Management

Support leaders and managers through performance cycles, calibration sessions, and compensation reviews, helping ensure fair and consistent outcomes

Help ensure performance management practices are applied consistently and in compliance with company policy and legal standards across your client groups

Partner with Compensation and HR Operations to support equitable pay decisions and address compensation-related questions

- Operational Excellence & Growth

Identify gaps in people processes or manager capability within your client groups and propose practical solutions

Partner with HR Ops and Centers of Excellence to help simplify, standardize, and scale HR practices as the organization grows

Actively seek opportunities to learn and develop, building expertise that prepares you to take on larger, more complex client groups over time

Operate with an owner’s mindset—taking accountability for outcomes, not just recommendations

## Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field

4–6 years of HR Business Partner or HR Generalist experience, ideally with some exposure to engineering or technical organizations

Working knowledge of US employment and labor law, including federal and California state regulations (wage and hour, leaves, accommodations, terminations, harassment/discrimination)

Experience handling employee relations matters, workplace investigations, and sensitive personnel issues with sound judgment

Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with managers and employees at all levels

Comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment with the ability to manage multiple priorities

Clear and effective communicator who can advise and influence people leaders with credibility

## Preferred Qualifications

PHR, SHRM-CP, or equivalent certification

Experience supporting G&A functions (Finance, Legal, People Ops, IT) in addition to technical teams

Exposure to organizations going through rapid scaling or hypergrowth phases

Analytical mindset with experience using people data to inform decisions

Interest in or experience with the semiconductor, AI, data center, or connectivity technology space

A growth orientation—eagerness to take on new client groups, build new capabilities, and develop toward a senior HRBP role

Salary range is $135,000 to $170,000 depending on experience, level, and business need. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonus, incentives and benefits. 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.

## About Astera Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Astera Labs designs and delivers semiconductor-based connectivity solutions purpose-built to unleash the full potential of cloud and AI infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Nasdaq: ALAB)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Jitendra Mohan, Sanjay Gajendra, Casey Morrison

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Semiconductor manufacturing / AI infrastructure connectivity
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily hyperscale cloud providers and system OEMs (e.g., NVIDIA, AMD, Intel)
- **Mission statement**: To innovate, design, and deliver semiconductor-based connectivity solutions that are purpose-built to unleash the full potential of cloud and AI infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **Aries PCIe®/CXL™ Smart DSP Retimers**: Silicon ICs, boards, and modules that digitally recover degraded high-speed signals to extend reach and enable higher PCIe/CXL data bandwidth between compute, storage, and network controllers.
- **Taurus Ethernet Smart Cable Modules™**: Hardware modules that increase network connectivity bandwidth between servers and switches over copper media, removing rack-level Ethernet bottlenecks.
- **Leo CXL Memory Connectivity Controllers**: ICs and boards that expand, share, and pool DRAM memory to overcome processor memory bandwidth bottlenecks for AI workloads.
- **Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches**: A family of PCIe 6 fabric switches ranging from 32 to 320 lanes, including the new 320-lane Scorpio X-Series Fabric Switch for AI scale-up fabrics.
- **COSMOS Software Suite**: A connectivity system management and optimization software that enables configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and predictive analytics for all Astera Labs products.

## Market Standing
- **Market Cap**: ~$11.6 billion (as of mid-2026)
- **Key Metric - Revenue**: $35 million (annual, reported)
- **Key Metric - Operating Income**: $173.4 million (2025)
- **Key Metric - Net Income**: $219.1 million (2025)
- **Total Funding**: ~$810.75 million (pre-IPO), with Series C ($50M, led by Fidelity) and Series D ($150M, led by Fidelity)
- **IPO Date**: March 20, 2024
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fidelity, NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, major hyperscalers
- **Growth Signals**: 92% YoY headcount growth (675 employees); 144 active job postings (+260% YoY); expanded Taiwan operations with a new Cloud-Scale Interop Lab in 2026; shipping millions of devices across all major hyperscalers; 300+ design wins.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-to-market innovation**: Pioneered first-to-market PCIe, Ethernet, and CXL connectivity products.
- **Patented software-defined platform approach**: Differentiates via a platform that combines silicon hardware with embedded COSMOS software, enabling flexibility, observability, and predictive analytics.
- **Deep hyperscaler relationships**: Trusted partner to the world’s largest cloud providers, with proven interoperability validated in their own Cloud-Scale Interop Lab.
- **Broad product portfolio**: Covers PCIe retimers, Ethernet cable modules, CXL memory controllers, and fabric switches—addressing the full spectrum of AI connectivity bottlenecks.
- **Strong IP and engineering talent**: 443 employees in technical roles; talent sourced from Intel (65), Marvell (37), Texas Instruments (40), AMD (22), and NVIDIA.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling AI infrastructure**: Expanding product portfolio and global footprint (12 countries) to meet surging demand for rack-scale AI.
- **Open standards leadership**: All products are grounded in open standards (PCIe, CXL, Ethernet), ensuring interoperability and broad adoption.
- **Taiwan expansion**: Growing engineering presence and Interop Lab in Taiwan to strengthen integration with leading AI platform providers and system manufacturers.
- **Continued innovation**: Shipping the new 320-lane Scorpio X-Series Fabric Switch and expanding the COSMOS software suite for fleet-level management and optimization.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as collaborative, ownership-driven, and focused on solving complex problems together. The company emphasizes diversity and inclusion as drivers of creativity and innovation.
- **Growth**: Astera Labs supports non-linear career growth—employees can deepen expertise (“scale up”) or broaden into new areas (“scale out”). 92% YoY headcount growth signals rapid expansion and opportunity.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Not explicitly stated, but global operations across 12 countries (including India, Canada, Israel, Taiwan, Vietnam) suggest a flexible, distributed work model.
- **Benefits**: Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans; flexible time off; family planning and parental leave; 401K and retirement plans.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong focus on cutting-edge semiconductor and AI infrastructure technology. High concentration of senior (24%) and specialist (19%) talent. Active internship and new graduate programs.
- **Employee ratings**: 4.5/5.0 on LinkedIn (124 reviews), with high marks for compensation (4.6), culture (4.4), and career development (4.4).

## Sources
1. [Astera Labs Careers Page](https://www.asteralabs.com/careers/)
2. [Astera Labs Official Website](https://www.asteralabs.com/)
3. [Astera Labs LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/astera-labs)
4. [Astera Labs Products Page](https://www.asteralabs.com/products/)
5. [Astera Labs S-1 Filing (SEC)](https://ir.asteralabs.com/static-files/7103a4cb-aa6b-4f11-a4b0-f179cd4c5bee)

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