Senior Director System Validation Engineer

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Salary

$240K-$300K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

132% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Director Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Director System Validation Engineer San Jose, CA 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 an exceptional Senior Director System Validation to lead our AI Fabric Validation organization. Connectivity is a critical component of every AI accelerator deployment and hyperscale data center architecture. As part of the AI Fabric Engineering group, you will play a key role in ensuring that Astera Labs' fabric solutions perform at scale and deliver system-level performance across the most demanding AI and ML workloads. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape validation strategy for cutting-edge connectivity silicon and gain deep insight into next-generation AI infrastructure platforms. Your primary responsibility will be to build and lead a world-class validation organization tasked with validating all silicon, firmware, and system-level solutions at scale, ensuring performance, reliability, and production readiness across customer deployments. Job Description - Seeking a strong technical leader who has delivered multiple SoC products. - Lead and scale the system validation organization for Astera Labs'

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