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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