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# Sr. Principal Program Manager, ASIC Post-Silicon Engineering at Astera Labs

- **Company:** Astera Labs
- **Location:** San Jose California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-06-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asteralabs/jobs/4709340005

## 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/).

## Role Overview

Astera Labs is seeking a Sr. Principal Program Manager, ASIC Post-Silicon Engineering to lead execution of complex post-silicon programs for AI connectivity products. This role owns cross-functional program delivery from silicon power-on through bring-up, validation, qualification, customer sampling, and release to manufacturing - RTM, aligning engineering execution with product, customer, and business milestones.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience leading technically complex semiconductor or systems programs involving silicon, firmware, software, platform, validation, manufacturing, and customer readiness. They are highly effective at driving cross-functional alignment, managing program risk, and communicating crisply with both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

## Key Responsibilities

- Program Ownership and Execution

- Own the integrated post-silicon program plan from silicon power-on through bring-up, validation, qualification, customer sampling, and RTM, ensuring alignment across silicon, firmware/software, platform, compliance, production test and manufacturing milestones.
- Drive program schedules, budgets, resources, interdependencies, and risk management, balancing scope, schedule, and cost trade-offs while maintaining clear communication with executives and key stakeholders.
- Drive validation readiness and execution alignment for high-speed connectivity products, including validation plan coverage, firmware and hardware readiness, test content, platform availability, and milestone tracking for technologies such as PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, and platform-level interconnect solutions.
- Manage phase-gate exit criteria, readiness checkpoints, dashboards, and decision forums to support predictable delivery and rapid cross-functional decision-making.

- Stakeholder Management and Cross-Functional Leadership

- Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, product, operations, quality, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams.
- Drive internal technical issue resolution through structured triage, escalation management, milestone reviews, and executive reporting; surface risks early, drive accountability, and enable timely decisions and recovery plans.
- Align priorities, trade-offs, readiness criteria, and launch decisions with business and customer goals across stakeholders.

- Customer Sampling and Release to Manufacturing

- Own customer sampling readiness, including sample allocation, validation exit criteria, firmware/software readiness, known-issue documentation, errata, release notes, reference platforms, and validation summaries.
- Drive customer-facing issue resolution and escalation management in partnership with product management, applications engineering, sales, quality, and engineering teams, ensuring materials and support plans are aligned with deployment.
- Lead cross-functional execution from engineering validation through RTM phase-gate exit.
- Partner with product engineering, test engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to drive manufacturing readiness reviews, production ramp execution, and production-release approvals, including ATE readiness, characterization, yield learning, failure analysis, reliability qualification, waivers, and errata.

## Basic Qualifications

- 10+ years of experience in semiconductor engineering, post-silicon validation, system validation, silicon bring-up, product engineering, product applications, FAE, or technical program management with a strong technical background.
- Strong experience leading post-silicon execution for complex ASIC, SoC, FPGA, SerDes, Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, networking, AI infrastructure, cloud, data center, or high-performance compute products.
- Demonstrated ability to manage products from first silicon through validation, customer sampling, qualification, RTM, and manufacturing readiness.
- Deep understanding of silicon validation flows, including bring-up, debug, characterization, interoperability, compliance, regression execution and issue triage.
- Experience managing FW development cycle, experience with JIRA, Confluence, dashboards, issue-tracking systems.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams across architecture, silicon design, firmware, software, electrical validation, system validation, product engineering, test, manufacturing, quality, operations, applications engineering, and customer-facing organizations.
- Strong technical knowledge in one or more of the following:
- High-speed SerDes
- Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, NVMe, or similar protocols
- AI server, networking, or data center platforms
- Signal integrity, eye diagrams, jitter, noise, impedance, and link training
- FEC, protocol compliance, and interoperability validation
- Firmware/hardware/software interaction
- Board, platform, and system-level debug
- Electrical validation and lab-based debug
- Optical or Active electrical modules
- Proven experience managing executive communications, program dashboards, milestones, dependencies, technical risks, issue escalations, and launch-readiness reviews.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous, technically complex environments with aggressive product schedules.

Salary range is $205,000 to $250,000 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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