Senior Principal Product Manager - Cosmos

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmap
• Define and own the end-to-end product roadmap for the platform, spanning embedded software running on silicon, firmware interfaces, host drivers, and server-level management tools
• Drive standardization of firmware APIs, host software interfaces, and management paradigms across all Astera product lines (Aries, Leo, Taurus, and beyond)
• Translate deep understanding of software-to-silicon communication models into clear product requirements and architectural direction
• Conduct competitive analysis and identify opportunities to differentiate Astera's full-stack manageability story
• Customer & Market Engagement
• Engage directly with hyperscaler and enterprise platform teams — including firmware engineers, system architects, and BMC/manageability owners — to gather requirements and validate priorities
• Partner with sales and field applications teams to support customer evaluations, integration discussions, and design wins
• Represent Astera Labs at industry events, standards bodies, and customer technical reviews
• Cross-Functional Execution
• Collaborate with firmware and embedded software teams to define how software runs on Astera silicon and how it interfaces with host systems
• Work with host software and driver teams to ensure seamless communication between server OS environments and Astera chips
• Partner with hardware architecture teams to influence chip features that enable superior programmability and software-driven manageability
• Coordinate with marketing on positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies for releases
• Operational Excellence
• Define and track product adoption metrics, customer integration success indicators, and firmware/software quality KPIs
• Manage release planning and feature prioritization across embedded software, firmware, driver, and tool workstreams simultaneously
• Build scalable product processes that support Astera's rapid growth and expanding product portfolio

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• 12+ years of experience in product management, technical marketing, firmware engineering, or systems engineering in the semiconductor or data center infrastructure industry
• Proven experience managing or defining software products that run on and directly communicate with silicon (embedded software, firmware, chip-level tools)
• Strong understanding of the full-stack interaction model: host software (drivers, OS-level tools) ↔ firmware ↔ embedded software running on chip
• Deep familiarity with data center server architectures, platform firmware (BIOS/UEFI, BMC), and infrastructure management frameworks
• Experience engaging directly with hyperscaler or enterprise platform/firmware teams on technical requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on background in firmware development, embedded software, or chip bring-up earlier in career — with direct experience running software on silicon
• Experience with connectivity technologies such as PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, or related protocols at the silicon/firmware level
• Familiarity with manageability frameworks such as Redfish, MCTP, PLDM, or in-band/out-of-band management interfaces
• Understanding of 800G/1.6T Ethernet, retimer/switch architectures, or rack-scale AI cluster topologies
• Experience at a semiconductor company shipping embedded software and firmware tied to connectivity or infrastructure silicon
• Track record of building and scaling product processes in a high-growth startup environment