Product Integration, Senior Principal - Active Electric Cable / Smart Cable Module Business

15+ years of experience in hardware product development, with substantial focus on high-speed interconnect, cable assembly, transceiver/module, or mixed signal/digital system integration

Demonstrated track record as a technical integration leader — owning the full-product convergence across multiple engineering disciplines on complex hardware products

Deep understanding of high-speed serial link design (56G/112G PAM4 or above), including signal integrity, channel modeling, equalization, and link budgeting

Strong working knowledge of PCB/substrate design, cable assembly construction, connector technology, and mechanical packaging for high-speed interconnects

Experience with firmware/hardware integration on products containing retimers, re-drivers, or PHY-layer silicon

Proven ability to drive complex cross-functional debug and root-cause analysis spanning electrical, mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing domains

End-to-End Product Integration

Own the technical integration of AEC products across all constituent domains: ASIC/retimer silicon, firmware, PCB/flex circuit, cable assembly, connector interface, mechanical housing, thermal management, and signal integrity

Define and maintain the AEC product integration plan — identifying all cross-domain interfaces, dependencies, risks, and validation checkpoints from early design through mass production release

Serve as the central technical authority who ensures all subsystem specifications are mutually consistent, physically realizable, and collectively deliver the target product performance

Drive integration trade-off decisions when competing requirements across domains (e.g., signal integrity vs.

cost, firmware timing vs.

Astera Labs is the connectivity backbone of rack-scale AI infrastructure. Our Active Electrical Cables (AEC), Smart Cable Modules (SCM), Silicon Evaluation Platforms, and rack-scale products deliver purpose-built, high-speed connectivity for the world's most demanding AI clusters. As our product portfolio expands in complexity, performance, and volume — and as OEM customers increasingly adopt Astera Labs silicon into their own designs — we need a senior engineering leader to build and scale the hardware design engineering organization that creates industry-defining products and enables our customers' success.

We are hiring a

Senior Principal Engineer, AEC Product Integration

to serve as the senior technical integration leader for Astera Labs' Active Electrical Cable product line. This is a deeply technical, hands-on individual contributor role at the most senior level — responsible for ensuring that every element of an AEC product (silicon, firmware, PCB/substrate, cable assembly, connector, mechanical, thermal, and signal integrity) comes together into a fully validated, production-ready, customer-qualified product.

You will be the single technical point of accountability for AEC product integration — the person who sees the complete picture, identifies gaps between disciplines, resolves cross-domain technical conflicts, and drives closure on the hardest integration challenges. You'll work at the intersection of hardware design, firmware, signal integrity, mechanical engineering, test, manufacturing, and customer applications — ensuring that Astera Labs' AEC products meet or exceed performance, quality, and reliability targets at scale.

Reporting to the AVP of AEC/SCM Hardware Engineering, you'll partner closely with engineering leads across all disciplines, as well as NPI, QA, validation, manufacturing, and customer engineering teams. You won't manage a large organization — instead, you'll lead through technical depth, cross-functional influence, and the ability to drive complex multi-variable problems to resolution.