Principal Product Technical Leader — AEC/SCM

The role

You will drive product integration for Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and Smart Cable Modules (SCMs) used in rack-scale AI infrastructure. You will serve as a technical owner across multiple domains including silicon, firmware, PCB, and mechanical design.

What you will do

• Define product-level interfaces, integration plans, risks, validation checkpoints, and readiness criteria.
• Influence architecture and design decisions across signal integrity, retimer, firmware, power, thermal, and mechanical constraints.
• Lead product-level electrical compliance and system validation for AEC/SCM products.
• Direct and review AEC/SCM hardware validation and reliability/failure analysis.
• Drive root-cause analysis for issues spanning silicon, firmware, hardware, SI, mechanical, thermal, test, and manufacturing teams.
• Partner with NPI, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams to transition products into volume production.
• Drive DFM/DFA/DFT reviews, production-test development, and yield analysis.
• Own technical investigations and corrective actions for complex failures and field issues.
• Provide technical direction during customer bring-up, interoperability testing, and platform qualification.
• Mentor engineers and improve documentation, debug workflows, and engineering standards.

Required qualifications

• Deep expertise in at least one relevant discipline.
• Working knowledge across adjacent domains.

About the company

Astera Labs provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. The company's Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates semiconductor-based technologies with the COSMOS software suite.