Technical Lead Product Engineer

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 . Role Overview Astera Labs is seeking a Technical Lead Product Engineer to join our team in San Jose, CA. In this role, you will be at the intersection of silicon development and production excellence, ensuring our industry-leading connectivity solutions meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and quality as they scale to volume production. The ideal candidate possesses breadth of industry experience in high-speed product development in the field of product and/or test engineering, can apply fundamentals in circuit, ATE, and test program to aid problem solving, and is a self-driven, result focused go-getter in the pursuit of goals and objectives. You'll work across the full product lifecycle, partnering with design, applications, and operations teams to drive our connectivity products from tape-out to high-volume manufacturing. This is a high-impact role at a company experiencing explosive growth, where your work directly enables the AI infrastructure revolution. With Astera Labs' portfolio spanning PCIe retimers, Ethernet solutions, and next-generation switching silicon operating at the bleeding edge of SerDes performance, you'll tackle some of the most demanding high-speed physical layer challenges in the semiconductor industry. Key Responsibilities Define test coverage strategies that balance quality, cost, and throughput for volume manufacturing Correlate bench characterization results with ATE measurements to ensure production screening effectiveness Partner with OSAT and test vendors to bring up and qualify production test hardware and loadboards Drive silicon qualification and reliability testing to ensure products meet production readiness criteria Drive DFT and design-for-manufacturing improvements based on production test learnings Contribute to product specifications and datasheet development with measured silicon performance data Drive product level decisions in terms of production test coverage, test cost, power and thermal performance Basic Qualifications Strong academic/technical background in electrical or computer engineering; bachelor’s is required; MS preferred Minimum of 5 years of experience in the field of post silicon product development dealing with high-speed IOs (product, test or validation) Hands-on work with ATE platform including test program updates for wafer sort and final test solutions Have gone through at least one cycle of full product development life cycle Strong problem-solving skills that involve system level analysis with test hardware, test program and DUT. Digital and analog circuit level understanding for DUT. Hands-on product/package qualification Excellent team player with great communication skills Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks Preferred Qualifications Understanding of NRZ/PAM4 SerDes protocols like PCIe (Gen3 and above), Ethernet (25G and above), and/or memory interfaces such as (LP)DDR5/4 Partnering with Fabs on process development and yield improvement initiatives Collaboration with silicon validation teams to ensure device performance meets production requirements Experience in working with analog high-speed IO testing and characterization Fi…