Hardware Design Engineering, Senior Director - Signal Connectivity Rack-Scale Platforms

Own the hardware validation strategy and execution for all products — including electrical performance validation, mechanical/environmental stress testing, reliability qualification, and standards compliance

Define validation plans that provide comprehensive coverage across signal integrity performance, power delivery, thermal behavior, mechanical durability, and environmental resilience

Establish qualification programs aligned with customer requirements, industry standards (GR-468, IEC, Telcordia, OCP specifications), and internal reliability targets

Drive a data-driven validation culture — ensuring all design decisions are backed by measured data, all failures are root-caused, and all products ship with complete characterization

Oversee interoperability testing with customer host platforms, switches, NICs, and system environments

For Silicon Evaluation Platforms, ensure validation coverage enables comprehensive silicon characterization and provides customers confidence in Astera Labs' silicon performance

Senior Director, Hardware Design Engineering

to lead and scale Astera Labs' hardware design engineering organization across Active Electrical Cables (AEC), Smart Cable Modules (SCM), Silicon Evaluation Platforms (SVB/EVB), rack-scale products, and OEM/customer design enablement.

This is a senior leadership role with full ownership of the hardware design function — encompassing electrical/PCB design, mechanical engineering, hardware validation, lab infrastructure, and customer hardware engineering support.

You will build and lead a world-class, multidisciplinary engineering organization that takes products from concept through design, validation, qualification, and production release — while simultaneously enabling OEM customers and design partners to successfully integrate Astera Labs silicon into their own products.

Your teams will own the complete hardware realization of Astera Labs' connectivity products and serve as the technical bridge between Astera Labs' silicon capabilities and the broader ecosystem of customers building next-generation AI infrastructure.

You will be a key member of the engineering leadership team, driving technology roadmaps, making critical technical and business trade-off decisions, and partnering closely with silicon, firmware, signal integrity, NPI, manufacturing, quality, product management, sales, and customer-facing teams.

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.