Sr Staff Engineer, Product Marketing - San Jose, United States
$180,000 - $223,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on MCU-based platform management and control-plane solutions that work alongside the baseboard management controller (BMC).
About the role
This senior role combines datacenter server-system expertise with product definition and marketing for MCU-based platform-management and control-plane solutions. The focus is on distributed management controllers, satellite controllers, and board-management MCUs that work alongside the baseboard management controller (BMC).
What you'll do
- Translate system requirements into differentiated silicon, firmware, reference solutions, business cases, roadmaps, and go-to-market plans.
- Define MCU requirements for server platform management, satellite controllers, and distributed control across compute, accelerator, storage, power, and cooling subsystems.
- Lead technical discovery with hyperscaler platform teams, server OEMs/ODMs, BMC and firmware vendors, and accelerator platform teams.
- Assess competitors and alternatives and convert insights into differentiated positioning and roadmap choices.
- Track Open Compute Project (OCP) initiatives and DMTF management standards, translating implications into product and interoperability requirements.
- Create positioning, messaging, launch plans, sales enablement, customer presentations, and competitive briefs.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or 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, and power and cooling subsystems, including management interfaces and controller partitioning.
- Understanding of BMC-based out-of-band management, satellite management controllers, MCU/RTOS firmware, and the boundary between local real-time control and system-level management.
- Working knowledge of MCTP transport, PLDM-based monitoring/control and firmware update, SPDM authentication and measurement exchange, and how device management integrates with BMC-hosted Redfish services.
- Familiarity with server sideband interfaces such as 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, software-enabled controllers with secure boot, hardware root of trust, device identity, signed firmware updates, recovery, SDKs, and reference designs.
- Experience with server bring-up, power sequencing, telemetry and fault diagnostics, firmware lifecycle management, or customer design-ins involving hyperscalers, OEMs/ODMs, and BMC ecosystem partners.
- Advanced degree in engineering or business, or equivalent senior product strategy experience.
Skills: product marketing, go-to-market plans, server platform management, BMC, firmware
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 52-day median for Product Marketing roles.
Product Marketing · Power Management
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Open roles in category
59
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$160k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (59 roles · 13 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 12 | 59 |
| Median days open | 24 d | 52 d (−28 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $160k |
Skills observed across this category: product marketing, go-to-market plans, server platform management, BMC, firmware
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 11 open roles · median 24 d
- Infineon Technologies · 10 open roles · median 21 d
- onsemi · 9 open roles · median 67 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 7 open roles · median 63 d
- STMicroelectronics · 6 open roles · median 77 d
- Analog Devices · 3 open roles · median 38 d
How we counted: 59 open Product Marketing (Power Management) roles from 13 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.