Senior Staff Engineer, Product Marketing - San Jose, United States

Originally posted 19 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role combines datacenter server-system expertise with product definition and marketing for MCU-based platform-management and control-plane solutions. The focus centers on distributed management controllers, satellite controllers, and board-management MCUs that work alongside baseboard management controllers (BMCs).

What you'll do

- Define MCU requirements, MRDs, business cases, and roadmap proposals for server platform management, satellite controllers, and distributed control subsystems. - Define solution architectures encompassing silicon, embedded firmware, management-protocol stacks, SDKs, tools/GUIs, and reference designs. - Lead technical discovery with hyperscalers, server OEMs/ODMs, firmware vendors, accelerator platform teams, and power and cooling partners. - Map sideband connectivity, controller placement, firmware ownership, and DMTF/OCP management standards including MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, and Redfish. - Create product positioning, messaging, launch plans, competitive briefs, and sales enablement to support customer design-ins. - Align silicon and firmware plans across architecture, software, applications, sales, and platform release schedules.

What you'll need

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field with 8+ years of relevant experience. - Experience in system architecture, server platform management, embedded systems, semiconductor product definition, technical product management, or applications engineering. - System knowledge of server motherboards, CPU/GPU/AI accelerator platforms, storage backplanes, power systems, cooling subsystems, management interfaces, and controller partitioning. - Understanding of BMC-based out-of-band management, satellite management controllers, MCU/RTOS firmware, and local real-time control boundaries. - Working knowledge of MCTP transport, PLDM-based monitoring/control, SPDM authentication, and integration with BMC-hosted Redfish services. - Familiarity with server sideband interfaces including I2C/SMBus, I3C, SPI, UART, GPIO, and PMBus.

Nice to have

- Experience with hyperscaler or enterprise servers, GPU/AI accelerator trays, rack management, power shelves, fan controllers, or liquid-cooling management. - Practical exposure to OpenBMC integration, OCP DC-SCM/DC-SCI or modular server architectures, and interoperability testing of MCTP/PLDM/SPDM endpoints. - Experience defining secure controllers featuring secure boot, hardware root of trust, device identity, signed firmware updates, recovery, SDKs, and reference designs. - Experience with server bring-up, power sequencing, telemetry, fault diagnostics, or firmware lifecycle management with hyperscalers and OEM/ODM partners. - Advanced degree in engineering or business, or equivalent senior product strategy experience.

Skills: Product Marketing, BMC, MRD, Go-to-market, Server Platform Management, MCTP/PLDM