Astera Labs Inc.
Principal Product Manager, Fiber Connectivity
San Jose, California, United States · Principal
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About the role
- Astera Labs is redefining the connectivity fabric of rack-scale AI infrastructure, with optical connectivity becoming increasingly important to the next generation of scale-up and scale out systems.
- Optical connectivity is becoming a system-level architecture decision in AI infrastructure, not simply a component choice.
- This role spans optical performance, system integration, manufacturing scale, supply chain, customer qualification, and commercial execution.
Responsibilities
- Identify target applications, market opportunities, technology transitions, and competitive threats, serving as the voice of the customer for hyperscalers, AI infrastructure companies, system OEMs and ecosystem partners.
- Develop go-to-market strategy and launch plans, including market assessment, competitive analysis, positioning, technical content, and sales enablement.
- Execute product development from concept through requirements, development, qualification, customer deployment, production ramp, and sustaining support.
- Lead cross-functional relationships across optical, mechanical, electrical, systems, manufacturing, operations, quality, supply chain, applications, sales, and finance.
- Partner with sales and applications teams to secure design wins, support customer commitments, and drive adoption.
- As a Principal Product Manager for Fiber Connectivity, you will own the link between AI system architecture and commercial product adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, materials science, business, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in product management, product line management, engineering, applications, business development, or a related function.
- Experience in optics, photonics, fiber optics, optical connectivity, optical packaging, or a related technology.
- Experience working across engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, sales, and commercial organizations.
Nice to have
- MBA or advanced technical degree.
- Market knowledge of AI, cloud, networking, data center, server, and high performance computing infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of passive optical connectivity, optical coupling, fiber assemblies, connectors, alignment, and optical and mechanical tolerances.
- Experience with co-packaged optics, near-package optics, optical I/O, scale-up optical interconnects, or related emerging architectures.
- Experience with high-volume manufacturing, supplier qualification, new product introduction, or production ramp.
Skills
- Labs (NASDAQ:
- ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions.
- Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.
- Principal Product Manager, Fiber Connectivity
- San Jose, California, United States
Compensation
- Base salary range is $185,000 to $240,000 depending on experience, level, and business need.
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