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

Astera Labs 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China

Onsite $150,000 - $200,000 Full-time Director

The Director will establish and lead the Shanghai hardware design center, focusing on Active Electrical Cable and Smart Cable Module product design and customer engineering support. This role involves building a multidisciplinary team and ensuring alignment with global engineering standards and customer priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and lead Astera Labs' Shanghai hardware design center
  • Recruit, hire, and develop a high-caliber multidisciplinary engineering team
  • 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
  • Serve as the senior Astera Labs engineering leader in China

Requirements

  • Experience in hardware design engineering
  • Strong technical background
  • Leadership skills
  • Ability to establish and lead a hardware design center
  • Experience in high-speed electrical design, substrate/flex design, and mechanical design

Key Skills

Hardware design engineering High-speed electrical design Substrate/flex design Mechanical design Leadership Team management Design for manufacturing Design for testability Signal integrity Power delivery Thermal management

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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