Principal Supplier Quality Engineer /China

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 an experienced leader to drive Supplier / Manufacturing Quality Engineering to anchor our global supplier quality efforts across both Astera Lab’s semiconductor, board-level products, optical products and rack-scale system products. In this role, you will drive leading supplier quality across key manufacturing partners including IC fabs, OSAT’s, optical product suppliers, rack-scale system product suppliers, and PCB/PCBA vendors. You will also work closely with the customers to understand their quality needs and resolve issues related to product quality. Moreover, you will lead cross-functional teams to drive various quality initiatives to ensure that the products meet customer expectations and quality standards. A strong foundation in supplier quality engineering and customer quality engineering, uniquely paired with experience in advanced data analytics for predictive quality, risk assessments, and product quality analytics will be highly valuable to this role. Responsibilities: Supplier Quality Management Drive supplier quality engineering activities at manufacturing partners, including failure analysis, root-cause identification, corrective actions, and verification of sustained closure. Lead containment, escalation, and recovery actions for supplier-driven quality excursions. Conduct regular focus line audits at key suppliers to verify process discipline, control plan adherence, corrective actions, and execution against quality expectations. Nurture winning partnerships across all our strategic manufacturing suppliers: semiconductor wafer fabs, advanced packaging & test (OSAT), boards & assemblies (PCB / PCBA / SMT), substrates / interposers, rack-scale system products, optical products, probe cards, and passive components. Develop robust supplier selection and onboarding processes in collaboration with Design, Procurement, Business & Engineering Operations teams. Define, build, and manage the systems to collect the data (KPI’s) needed to track supplier performance and drive continuous improvement. Audit to assess the effectiveness of supplier process controls, manufacturing capabilities, and overall quality management system. Coach suppliers by sharing your deep manufacturing experience and knowledge. International travel as needed, potentially on short notice. There is no minimum amount but prepare to accommodate up to 50%. Customer Quality Management Work directly with regional customers to investigate and resolve supplier-related and other related quality issues, provide status updates, and coordinate cross-functional closure. Handle customer quality issues using tools such as 8D, 5-why, and FMEA. Manage customer messaging and provide timely status updates to customers. Work on customer questionnaires on environmental compliance such as FMD, REACH and RoHS. Handle RMA requests and other technical requests from the customers. Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers. Advanced Data Analytics Create data collection methods to enable product and supplier advanced data analytics needed for monolithic, chiplet, and board products. Data sources will include manufacturing inline controls, production test (inclu…