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Principal Product Manager, Fiber Connectivity

San Jose, CAOnsiteFull TimePrincipal$185,000–$240,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • product management
  • product line management
  • business development
  • optics
  • photonics
  • fiber optics
  • optical connectivity
  • optical packaging
  • AI infrastructure
  • hyperscalers

Nice to have

  • advanced technical degree
  • AI
  • cloud
  • networking
  • data center
  • high performance computing

Role summary

Astera Labs is seeking a Principal Product Manager for Fiber Connectivity to define and drive passive optical connectivity solutions for AI infrastructure. This role involves owning the product lifecycle from concept to production, setting customer-driven requirements, and making tradeoffs across performance, cost, and manufacturability. You will collaborate with hyperscalers and AI infrastructure companies, leading cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales to establish strategies for high-volume production and secure design wins. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in product management with a background in hardware development and optics/photonics.

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.

Principal Product Manager, Fiber Connectivity

San Jose, California, United States

Job Summary:

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.

As a Principal Product Manager for Fiber Connectivity, you will own the link between AI system architecture and commercial product adoption. You will define a portfolio of passive optical connectivity solutions, set customer-driven product requirements, and drive products from concept through qualification, deployment, and production.

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. You will work with hyperscalers, AI infrastructure companies and optical ecosystem partners.

Responsibilities

  • Define the product strategy and multi-year roadmap for passive optical connectivity at the fiber-to-chip and system interfaces of high-density AI infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Set customer-driven product attribute targets and make clear tradeoffs across optical performance, density, cost, manufacturability, reliability, supply chain, adoption, and time to market.
  • 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.
  • Establish manufacturing, supplier, automation, quality, reliability, test, yield, capacity, and cost-reduction strategies for high-volume production.
  • Partner with sales and applications teams to secure design wins, support customer commitments, and drive adoption.

    • Basic Qualifications:

  • 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 developing and commercializing complex hardware products.
  • 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.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
  • Willingness to travel internationally as needed.

    • Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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.
  • Proven ability to work directly with hyperscalers, major system companies and optical ecosystem partners

    • We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.

    Base salary range is $185,000 to $240,000 depending on experience, level, and business need. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonus, incentives and benefits.

    We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.

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