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.
Job Description
We are seeking a ASIC Design Engineering Director / Sr. Manager to lead the microarchitecture, RTL implementation, and front-end development of high-performance connectivity solutions for next-generation network controllers. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in front-end ASIC design, strong leadership experience, and a solid understanding of communication and interface standards such as PCIe, Ethernet, UALink.This role requires on-site presence.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 12+ years of experience developing or supporting complex SoC/silicon products for server, storage, or networking applications.
- 5+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience.
- Strong professional presence with the ability to manage multiple priorities, prepare for and lead customer discussions, and operate independently with minimal supervision.
- Entrepreneurial, open-minded, and action-oriented mindset with a strong customer focus.
- Authorized to work in the U.S. and able to start immediately.
Required Experience:
- Strong front-end design expertise in high-speed digital logic design in ASICs/SOCs, including architecture, RTL development, simulation, synthesis, timing closure, GLS, and DFT.
- Hands on experience in guiding and mentoring design engineers throughout the chip front end development
- hands-on experience in Micro architecture and timing closure for high-speed logic design ( 1-2GHz) in advanced process nodes
- Hands-on experience and working knowledge of Ethernet or UALink and Familiarity with other high-speed interconnect protocol
- Proven experience with packet/cell based high-speed switching architectures, cross bars, and high-speed interconnects.
- Demonstrated ownership of full-chip or block-level development from architecture through GDS, delivering multiple complex designs into production, working closely with both hardware and software teams.
- Experience with Cadence and/or Synopsys digital design and DFT flows
- Expertise in IP/SOC integration
- Expertise in silicon bring-up, performance tuning, and lab debug
Preferred Experience:
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or equivalent.
- Background in developing ASIC design methodologies and driving methodology adoption across teams.
This position can be hired as a Senior Manager Level or Director Level. The base salary range is $230,000 USD – $265,000 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on location, experience, and employees' pay in similar positions.
We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.
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What We Do
Astera Labs Inc., a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, is a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems throughout the data center.
Partnering with leading processor vendors, cloud service providers, seasoned investors, and world-class manufacturing companies, Astera Labs is helping customers remove performance bottlenecks in data-intensive systems that are limiting the true potential of applications such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The company’s product portfolio includes system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and services to enable robust CXL, PCIe, and Ethernet connectivity.









