Sr. Principal Program Manager, ASIC Post-Silicon Engineering

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.

Astera Labs is seeking a

Senior Principal Post-Silicon Technical Program Manager

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.