Astera Labs
Hardware Board Validation Engineering, Director
$238K–$265K
San Jose, California, United States +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
California - Experience
- 12 - 15+ years of relevant experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field; Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering preferred.
About the job
Leads the team developing, bringing up, validating, and productizing high-speed hardware boards for rack-scale AI infrastructure, from concept through mass production.
What you'll do
- Set board validation strategy and plans, and lead design review, bring-up, debug, qualification, and production release.
- Direct high-speed board and system validation, including SerDes and memory interfaces, and resolve technical and customer issues.
- Build and mentor the engineering team and coordinate with cross-functional partners, customers, manufacturers, and suppliers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
- Technical management experience leading hardware design, validation, or system engineering teams.
- System-level board design experience from component selection and schematic capture through bring-up, validation, and production release.
- Strong high-speed board design background for enterprise, data center, server, storage, networking, or AI infrastructure systems.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Experience with PCIe add-in cards, CEM cards, paddle cards, active electrical cables, servers, JBOD/JBOG systems, networking switches or routers, interconnects, or optical platforms.
Pay
USD $238,500 to $265,000 base salary
Tools
NRZ, PAM4, PCIe Gen 3 and above, Ethernet 25G and above, LPDDR4/5, Cadence, Altium, Cadence Allegro
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