Chip Lead, Senior Director
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.Astera Labs is seeking an Senior Director OR Associate Vice President, Product Technical Lead (Chip Lead) to drive the end-to-end success of our next-generation UALink switching products in San Jose. This is an executive technical leadership role where you will connect architecture, design, validation, firmware, systems, and operations to ensure clarity, alignment, and predictable execution across the full product lifecycle. As the technical integrator for the product line, you will lead through influence and cross-functional authority, working on cutting-edge UALink, UCIe, and PCIe Gen6/Gen7 technologies that power the largest AI clusters in the world. You'll be the central technical voice ensuring our switching products scale with Astera's hyper-growth while delivering world-class silicon to customers enabling rack-scale AI and hyperscale data centers. Location - San Jose, CA OR Israel Key Responsibilities Product Technical Ownership Own the full technical lifecycle of the product line—architecture assumptions, design integration, validation strategy, readiness, and customer enablement Drive chip development execution from RTL to GDSII, ensuring architecture, implementation, and tapeout milestones are met Lead development of large-scale chips (300-400mm²) utilizing 2.5D/3D advanced packaging technologies and chiplet-based architectures Reduce ambiguity by translating product requirements into clear priorities, tradeoffs, and execution paths Own the Chip Tapeout and Chip signoff with full responsibility on Chip Quality. Cross-Functional Technical Leadership Anticipate challenges early, drive alignment across all engineering functions, ensuring risks, dependencies, and decisions are surfaced and resolved at the earliest Partner with design verification teams to define coverage goals, regression strategies, and sign-off criteria Collaborate with DFT teams on test architecture, scan insertion, BIST, and manufacturing test strategies Work closely with physical design teams on timing closure, power optimization, and backend execution&nbs...