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Senior Staff Engineer, Product Marketing

San Jose, CALIFORNIA, usFull-time$180k–$223k2026-10-19 → 2026-11-11

Core

Define MCU requirements for server platform management, satellite controllers, and distributed control across compute, accelerator, storage, power, and cooling subsystems; translate customer and market input into MRDs, business cases, roadmaps, and go-to-market plans.

Role type

Senior Staff Product Marketing Engineer (Server Platform Management)

Builds

Silicon, embedded firmware, management-protocol stacks, SDKs, tools/GUIs, reference designs, and customer-specific tools for distributed management controllers and satellite controllers.

Domain

Semiconductor / Server Infrastructure / Datacenter Management

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

System architecture, server platform management, embedded systems, semiconductor product definition, technical product management, applications engineering, MCTP/PLDM/SPDM/Redfish protocols, server sideband interfaces (I2C/SMBus/I3C/SPI/UART/GPIO/PMBus), product requirements definition, business case creation, roadmap planning, go-to-market strategy, competitive analysis, cross-functional alignment.

Preferred skills

Hyperscaler or enterprise server experience, GPU/AI accelerator trays, rack management, power shelves, fan controllers, liquid-cooling management, OpenBMC integration, OCP DC-SCM/DC-SCI, modular server architectures, interoperability testing, secure boot, hardware root of trust, device identity, signed firmware updates, SDK development, server bring-up, power sequencing, telemetry, fault diagnostics, firmware lifecycle management.

Technologies

OpenBMC, OCP DC-SCM, DC-SCI, MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, Redfish, I2C, SMBus, I3C, SPI, UART, GPIO, PMBus, RTOS, SDKs, GUIs.

Responsibilities

Define use cases for rack-level monitoring, board housekeeping, power sequencing, reset control, sensor aggregation, telemetry, thermal management, power capping, fault reporting, and recovery; lead technical discovery with hyperscaler platform teams, server OEMs/ODMs, and ecosystem partners; map server and rack management architectures and controller placement; assess competitors and convert insights into differentiated positioning; create positioning, messaging, launch plans, sales enablement, and competitive briefs; support design-in activity with sales and customer engineering teams; align silicon and firmware plans with customer platform schedules and BMC integration.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship