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Senior Product Manager
Not specifiedFull-timeProduct ManagementSemiconductors
Own product strategy and execution for silicon photonics and optical connectivity products serving AI and data center infrastructure. Lead cross-functional work from customer needs and roadmap through design-in, validation, and production readiness.
Responsibilities
- Set multi-generation roadmaps for photonic integrated circuits, integrated lasers, optical engines, chiplets, and enabling firmware.
- Translate customer needs into product requirements, interfaces, and measurable acceptance criteria; prioritize internal development, partnerships, and custom solutions.
- Guide technical trade-offs across photonic and electronic integrated circuits, lasers, packaging, boards, firmware, and systems.
- Define hardware/firmware boundaries, device control and initialization, calibration, monitoring, fault handling, and host interfaces.
- Drive customer design-ins and enablement through evaluation kits, reference designs, datasheets, firmware interfaces, samples, integration guides, and demonstrations.
- Own interoperability, customer integration issues, and qualification closure.
- Lead productization from tapeout and hardware/firmware bring-up through wafer test, packaging, characterization, system validation, reliability, yield, and production ramp.
- Own business cases, competitive benchmarking, pricing, forecasts, lifecycle decisions, and performance, cost, and margin targets.
- Build strategic relationships with foundries, OSATs, component suppliers, and integration partners; identify repeatable platform opportunities.
Requirements
- At least 8 years in complex semiconductor, optical connectivity, or high-speed hardware products, including product management, product line management, or a related customer-facing technical business role.
- Demonstrated ownership of a complex hardware or semiconductor product from customer requirements through chip and system bring-up, hardware/firmware integration, validation, design-in, and production readiness.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering, photonics, physics, or a related discipline.
- Experience in at least one relevant area: silicon photonics, optical communications, high-speed SerDes or connectivity silicon, optical engines, or advanced chiplets and packaging.
- Working understanding of embedded firmware/software and real-time systems, including sequencing, control loops, diagnostics, failure recovery, and hardware/software interfaces.
- Ability to develop product business cases, assess competitive differentiation, negotiate technical scope, and connect roadmaps to design wins, margins, and revenue.
- Strong written and verbal English; able to engage senior customer engineers and executives and lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Nice to have
- Experience with integrated lasers, III-V-on-silicon, MRM/MZI/EAM technologies, NPO/CPO optical engines, advanced packaging, chiplet interfaces, or hyperscaler and Tier-1 design-ins.
- Familiarity with MCU firmware, real-time control loops, device telemetry, I²C/MDIO/CMIS, bring-up tools, or foundry and OSAT processes.