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System Validation manager

Astera Labs177 open roles

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Haifa District, Israel
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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.

Astera Labs is seeking a dynamic and technical Manager, System Validation Engineering to lead our post-silicon and system validation teams in Haifa.

In this leadership role, you will direct engineering teams responsible for validating high-performance PCIe and connectivity fabric switch products built for rack-scale AI and cloud data centers.

You will combine hands-on technical oversight with strong people management, guiding engineers through validation strategy, automated test execution, deep root-cause investigations, and direct customer integration support. This is a critical leadership position to shape our validation methodologies, scale automation infrastructure, and ensure the flawless execution and launch of purpose-built connectivity silicon.

Success Looks Like

  • Execution & On-Time Delivery: New silicon, platforms, and AI fabric switch solutions are brought up and certified on schedule with rigorous, reproducible validation results.
  • Team Leadership & Scale: Engineering talent is mentored, engaged, and effectively deployed across multiple projects, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and innovation.
  • Automation & Efficiency: Test suites and infrastructure are scaled to maximize test coverage, minimize manual effort, and drive down test cycle times.
  • Customer Trust & Resolution: Complex cross-functional system issues are resolved rapidly through data-backed root-cause analysis, resulting in high customer satisfaction during integration and deployment.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing System Validation Engineers at Haifa
  • Drive resource planning, project scheduling, engineer capacity tracking, and milestone execution across multiple complex silicon programs.
  • Foster strong cross-functional alignment with Silicon Design, Firmware, Software, Hardware, Product, and Applications teams.
  • Attract, hire, and develop top engineering talent while championing technical growth and career development.

Validation Strategy & Planning

  • Oversee the creation of comprehensive validation plans for AI fabric switch products covering functionality, performance, reliability, stress, and interoperability.
  • Translate complex customer and system requirements into measurable test objectives, coverage goals, and product certification criteria.
  • Establish clear, data-driven reporting metrics, status dashboards, and specification-compliance assessments for executive leadership and key customers.
  • Guide technical execution for silicon and platform bring-up activities, verifying boot and runtime behavior on x86 and ARM systems.
  • Oversee complex debugging across PCIe, NVMe, Ethernet, firmware, hardware, and system layers using advanced lab equipment and CPU-based tool suites.
  • Drive systematic root-cause problem solving, guiding engineers through structured experiment design to isolate and resolve complex silicon, firmware, and board-level issues.
  • Scale validation infrastructure supporting test orchestration, advanced data collection, statistical analysis, and automated report generation.
  • Continually optimize validation workflows and lab debug tools to accelerate issue resolution and improve regression coverage.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
  • 8+ years of total experience in silicon product development, post-silicon validation, or system engineering for server, storage, networking, or AI infrastructure applications, including 4+ years of technical leadership or people management experience.
  • Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, managing project schedules, and driving execution in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proven track record with complex silicon and system bring-up, validation, and laboratory debug methodologies.
  • Strong Python automation background for test orchestration, bench control, and data analysis.
  • Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.

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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