Principal Reliability Engineer

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.

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced hands-on Principal Reliability Engineer to lead and develop next generation high-speed, high performance and low power semiconductor products in advanced process node. The ideal candidate possesses breadth of industry experience in the field of reliability engineering for CMOS and bipolar technology, multi-chip module via substate or silicon interposer, and/or integrated device with optical modules. The candidate will drive reliability plan across all product families, evaluate new process node and work with designers to achieve design for reliability, evaluate new packaging technology and assess reliability risk, assist failure localization and physical FA for failure disposition, and own reliability report for customer communication.  

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the field of reliability engineering dealing with complex SOC. Minimum of 5 years in leadership role.


• Strong academic/technical background in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; MS required; PhD preferred


• Strong fundamentals in semiconductor device engineering, product qualification requirement, reliability failure modes, and various device aging effects


• Excellent team player with great communication skills


• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks

Required Experience:

• Hands on experience in product/package qualification, hardware setup and failure disposition


• Expertise in process reliability, design for reliability, reliability for advanced package, and reliability prediction and modelling


• Experience in reliability stress conditions, sampling size, and failure rate calculation


• Experience in leading edge technology adoption including advanced process node and 2.5D/3D packaging


• Product level experience with complex SOCs: logic, memory, DDR, high-speed XCVR


• Energetic work mindset meeting the demands of shipping quality parts to Astera Labs’ customers throughout the product life cycle

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in working with reliability and FA lab


• Experience in SEU


• Experience with optical device qualification

Your base salary will be determined based on your experience and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $203,000 USD - $230,000 USD for Principal levelThe actual level is to be determined by the years of experience and interview outcome.

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.