Principal Technical Program Manager - Fremont, CA, United States
Originally posted 20 April 2026 by the employer.
Drive qualification execution and customer engineering for 800G and 1.6T optical interconnect products.
About the role
Serve as the dedicated technical program manager and customer engineering interface for Microsoft Azure, owning pre-qualification engagement, qualification execution, and ramp support. The role focuses on 800G, 1.6T, and optical interconnect products, translating architecture, roadmap, and validation requirements across hardware, firmware, systems, reliability, operations, and quality teams.
What you'll do
- Lead technical engagement with Microsoft architecture, networking, qualification, and sourcing teams to align product configuration, performance targets, telemetry needs, and sample plans. - Drive readiness before customer shipment by coordinating demo hardware or EVB, reference firmware, interoperability coverage, tolerance testing, corner-condition calibration, and proactive system-level verification. - Own cross-functional issue resolution for firmware and system integration, CMIS interpretation, power and thermal limits, optical performance, telemetry, and manufacturing issues. - Coordinate with switch, NIC, and system vendors and internal product lines to remove interoperability blockers and improve first-pass qualification success. - Provide executive updates, risk registers, and trade-off recommendations covering schedule, capacity, yield, BOM diversity, and customer commitments. - Support bring-up, qualification, and ramp through regular reviews and technical alignment.
What you'll need
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optics, Computer Engineering, or a related field. - 7 years in technical marketing, customer engineering, systems engineering, or technical program management for optical transceivers, networking, or datacenter hardware. - Strong working knowledge of optical module qualification, firmware and system bring-up, CMIS, telemetry or DDM, power and thermal trade-offs, and switch or NIC interoperability. - Proven ability to influence hyperscale customers and lead cross-functional teams across R&D, operations, quality, and external partners to close technical issues.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting 800G or 1.6T qualification, or similar high-speed optical products with hyperscale customers.
Skills: optical transceivers, networking, firmware, system integration, CMIS, optical module qualification