System Validation manager 

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.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• 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.