Senior Principal Post-Silicon Technical Program Manager, AI Connectivity Products

Responsibilities

• Program Ownership and Execution
• Own the integrated post-silicon program plan from silicon power-on through bring-up, validation, qualification, customer sampling, and RTM, ensuring alignment across silicon, firmware/software, platform, compliance, production test and manufacturing milestones.
• Drive program schedules, budgets, resources, interdependencies, and risk management, balancing scope, schedule, and cost trade-offs while maintaining clear communication with executives and key stakeholders.
• Manage phase-gate exit criteria, readiness checkpoints, dashboards, and decision forums to support predictable delivery and rapid cross-functional decision-making.
• Stakeholder Management and Cross-Functional Leadership
• Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, product, operations, quality, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams.
• Drive internal technical issue resolution through structured triage, escalation management, milestone reviews, and executive reporting; surface risks early, drive accountability, and enable timely decisions and recovery plans.
• Align priorities, trade-offs, readiness criteria, and launch decisions with business and customer goals across stakeholders.
• Customer Sampling and Release to Manufacturing
• Own customer sampling readiness, including sample allocation, validation exit criteria, firmware/software readiness, known-issue documentation, errata, release notes, reference platforms, and validation summaries.
• Drive customer-facing issue resolution and escalation management in partnership with product management, applications engineering, sales, quality, and engineering teams, ensuring materials and support plans are aligned with deployment.
• Lead cross-functional execution from engineering validation through RTM phase-gate exit.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor engineering, post-silicon validation, system validation, silicon bring-up, product engineering, product applications, FAE, or technical program management with a strong technical background.
• Strong experience leading post-silicon execution for complex ASIC, SoC, FPGA, SerDes, Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, networking, AI infrastructure, cloud, data center, or high-performance compute products.
• Demonstrated ability to manage products from first silicon through validation, customer sampling, qualification, RTM, and manufacturing readiness.
• Deep understanding of silicon validation flows, including bring-up, debug, characterization, interoperability, compliance, regression execution and issue triage.
• Experience managing FW development cycle, experience with JIRA, Confluence, dashboards, issue-tracking systems.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams across architecture, si

Benefits

Additional Information

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 Senior Principal Post-Silicon Technical Program Manager to lead execution of complex post-silicon programs for AI connectivity products. This role owns cross-functional program delivery from silicon power-on through bring-up, validation, qualification, customer sampling, and release to manufacturing - RTM, aligning engineering execution with product, customer, and business milestones. The ideal candidate brings deep experience leading technically complex semiconductor or systems programs involving silicon, firmware, software, platform, validation, manufacturing, and customer readiness. They are highly effective at driving cross-functional alignment, managing program risk, and communicating crisply with both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

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