Senior Principal Product Manager - Cosmos

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><span data-contrast="auto">Astera Labs is seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager to lead the strategic direction and execution of a unified management and configuration suite that sits at the critical interface between host software, firmware, and silicon across our entire portfolio of connectivity products. This is not a traditional software PM role — it requires deep technical fluency in how software communicates with and runs on chips, how firmware orchestrates silicon behavior, and how all of it comes together inside modern AI server platforms.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">As the owner of the product roadmap, you will drive standardization of the full-stack software and firmware experience across all Astera products, ensuring that every touchpoint — from chip-level firmware execution to the host drivers and management tools running on the server — delivers a cohesive, powerful, and scalable experience for hyperscaler and enterprise customers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This role sits at the heart of Astera's hyper-growth trajectory. As AI clusters scale from thousands to hundreds of thousands of accelerators, the need for intelligent, unified connectivity management has never been greater. You'll define how the industry's most advanced PCIe, CXL, and Ethernet connectivity silicon gets configured, monitored, and orchestrated — from embedded software running directly on the chip all the way up to the data center management plane.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Key Responsibilities</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Product Strategy & Roadmap</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Define and own the end-to-end product roadmap for the platform, spanning embedded software running on silicon, firmware interfaces, host drivers, and server-level management tools</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Drive standardization of firmware APIs, host software interfaces, and management paradigms across all Astera product lines (Aries, Leo, Taurus, and beyond)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li…