

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.
Role Overview
Astera Labs is seeking an experienced and hands-on Principal Optical Reliability Engineer to drive reliability strategy across our cutting-edge portfolio of connectivity products, with a focus on silicon photonics and optical components. As AI infrastructure demands unprecedented bandwidth and performance, this role is critical to ensuring our products deliver exceptional reliability through end-of-life.
You will lead reliability initiatives and serve as an internal consultant, defining and implementing methodologies across component, chiplet, photonic, and board-level products. This is a high-impact position where you'll partner closely with design, product/test engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams to embed reliability-aware principles.
Key Responsibilities
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Salary range is $185,000 to $230,000 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.