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

Astera Labs 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China

Onsite Full-time Senior

Establish and lead the Shanghai hardware design center, overseeing the end-to-end design and production of Active Electrical Cables (AEC) and Smart Cable Modules (SCM). Serve as the primary technical partner for China-based hyperscale customers and OEMs to enable the integration of Astera Labs silicon into their infrastructure.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical discipline
  • 15+ years of progressive experience in hardware design engineering for high-speed interconnect products
  • 5+ years in engineering management/leadership roles, including building and leading multidisciplinary hardware design teams
  • Deep technical expertise in high-speed flex circuit, rigid-flex, or substrate design at 56G/112G PAM4 data rates or above

Key Skills

Hardware design engineering High-speed interconnect design PCB design AEC/SCM product design China customer engineering support Technical leadership Engineering management Leadership Communication Collaboration Problem-solving Design thinking User-centered design Agile development Scrum Electrical 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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