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

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span data-teams="true">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 <a id="menurhut" class="fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" href="http://www.asteralabs.com/" target="_blank">www.asteralabs.com</a>.</span></p></div><p></p> <h1 data-local-id="7179c40f1989" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 3 []">Director, Hardware Design Engineering — AEC / SCM & China Customer Support</h1> <p data-local-id="9d88b569e79a" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Reports to:</strong> Senior Director, Hardware Design Engineering</p> <p data-local-id="a8c1891df865" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Location:</strong> Shanghai, China — Astera Labs Shanghai Design Center</p> <hr data-local-id="7322343a-ec9c-49a2-b4cc-83da37a818e8" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="rule" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"> <h2 data-local-id="1b135f027e8d" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">About Astera Labs</h2> <p data-local-id="c4f01b7459ea" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">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.</p> <hr data-local-id="6337a2a7-1c89-4ee0-9ec6-d87508af621e" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="rule" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"> <h2 data-local-id="3e71f21ba8d4" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">About the Role</h2> <p data-local-id="6d70714def20" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">We are hiring a <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Director of Hardware Design Engineering — AEC / SCM & China Customer Support</strong> to establish and lead Astera Labs' Shanghai hardware design center. This role has dual mission ownership:</p> <ol class="ak-ol" data-local-id="738bb349-c8df-4e80-9463-af3e9a3fa29b" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="orderedList" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"> <li data-local-id="235320ab-efce-4a23-bbbe-718203b248e2" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="listItem" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"> <p data-local-id="a57826c1124f" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">AEC & SCM Product Design</strong> — 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</p> </li> <li data-local-id="55505a17-47d5-4ff2-93ca-d1b880a8250d" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="listItem"…