Drimva

Astera Labs

Principal Product Manager, Fiber Connectivity

$185K–$240K

San Jose, California, United States +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026

Location
San Jose, California, United States
California
Experience
10+ years, in product management, product line management, engineering, applications, business development, or a related function.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, materials science, business, or a related field.

About the job

Own the strategy, roadmap, and commercialization of passive optical connectivity products for high-density AI infrastructure, from concept through production and customer adoption.

What you'll do

  • Define product strategy, roadmap, customer requirements, and tradeoffs for passive optical connectivity.
  • Drive product development, qualification, launch, customer deployment, and production ramp across cross-functional teams.
  • Develop go-to-market plans and work with customers, suppliers, sales, and applications teams to secure design wins and adoption.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, materials science, business, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in product management, product line management, engineering, applications, business development, or a related function.
  • Experience developing and commercializing complex hardware products and experience in optics, photonics, fiber optics, optical connectivity, optical packaging, or a related technology.
  • Experience across engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, sales, and commercial organizations; willingness to travel internationally as needed.

Nice to have

  • MBA or advanced technical degree.
  • Knowledge of AI, cloud, networking, data center, server, and high performance computing infrastructure; relevant optical connectivity, emerging architecture, or high-volume manufacturing experience.

Pay

$185,000 to $240,000 USD base salary

Tools

fiber optics, optical connectivity, optical packaging, co-packaged optics, near-package optics, optical I/O

AI focus

Develop passive optical connectivity products for AI infrastructure, including fiber-to-chip and system interfaces in high-density systems.

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