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Hardware Design Engineering, Director - Active Electric Cable / Smart Cable Module Business - Taiwan

Astera Labs 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan

Onsite Full-time Senior

Establish and lead the Taiwan hardware engineering center, serving as the primary hub for OEM engagement and silicon platform design in Asia. Lead the development of Silicon Validation Boards (SVB/EVB) and rack-scale AI infrastructure products including chassis and switch trays.

Responsibilities

  • Establish, build, and lead Astera Labs' Taiwan hardware engineering center
  • Recruit, hire, and develop a high-caliber multidisciplinary engineering team in Taiwan
  • Define organizational structure, hiring roadmap, and operating model for the Taiwan center
  • Drive engineering culture that emphasizes customer responsiveness, design excellence, and tight collaboration with Santa Clara headquarters
  • Serve as the senior Astera Labs engineering leader in Asia, representing the company with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders in the region

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline
  • 15+ years of progressive experience in hardware design engineering for high-speed interconnect, server/switch systems, silicon evaluation platforms, or data center infrastructure products
  • 5+ years in engineering management/leadership roles, including building and leading multi-team hardware engineering organizations
  • Proven track record designing complex high-speed PCBs at 56G/112G PAM4 data rates or above

Key Skills

Hardware design engineering High-speed interconnect design PCB design Silicon validation platform design Rack-scale product design OEM design enablement Engineering management Leadership Communication Collaboration Problem-solving Design thinking User-centered design Agile development Scrum Electrical engineering Computer engineering Mechanical engineering Validation engineering Customer applications engineering Lab engineering Firmware engineering Signal integrity engineering

About Astera Labs

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™ Fusion, 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.

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