Hardware Design Engineering, Director - Active Electric Cable / Smart Cable Module Business - China

About this role

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.

Director, Hardware Design Engineering — AEC / SCM & China Customer Support

Reports to: Senior Director, Hardware Design Engineering

Location: Shanghai, China — Astera Labs Shanghai Design Center

About Astera Labs

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 AEC and SCM product lines scale rapidly to meet hyperscale AI infrastructure demand — and as China-based OEM customers, hyperscale cloud providers, and system integrators increasingly adopt Astera Labs silicon and connectivity products — we are establishing a Shanghai-based hardware design center to drive product development, manufacturing collaboration, and customer engineering support in close proximity to our manufacturing partners and China-based customers.

About the Role

We are hiring a Director of Hardware Design Engineering — AEC / SCM & China Customer Support to establish and lead Astera Labs' Shanghai hardware design center. This role has dual mission ownership:

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AEC & SCM Product Design — Primary ownership of Active Electrical Cable and Smart Cable Module hardware design execution, from architecture through production release, leveraging proximity to China-based cable assembly and module contract manufacturers