Senior Staff Engineer, Product Marketing (AI datacenter infrastructure)
About The Position
This senior role combines datacenter server-system expertise with product definition and marketing for MCU-based platform-management and control-plane solutions. The role focuses on distributed management controllers, satellite controllers, and board-management MCUs that work alongside—not as replacements for—the baseboard management controller (BMC). The successful candidate will understand how server motherboards, CPU and GPU/AI accelerator trays, storage backplanes, power systems, and cooling subsystems are monitored and controlled. Working with hyperscalers, server OEMs, ODMs, and ecosystem partners, the Senior Staff Engineer translates system requirements and customer and market input into differentiated silicon, firmware, reference solutions, business cases, roadmaps, and go-to-market plans. The role defines MCU requirements and complete solutions spanning silicon, embedded firmware, management-protocol stacks, SDKs, tools and GUIs, reference designs, and customer-specific tools and application layers. It also leads technical discovery, product positioning, launch planning, design-in support, cross-functional alignment, and reviews of product concepts, business cases, roadmap choices, and launch readiness. The position is at Renesas, an embedded semiconductor solution provider with a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries. The role is eligible for bonus opportunities. Renesas describes its culture as Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial, and states that it is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in system architecture, server platform management, embedded systems, semiconductor product definition, technical product management, or applications engineering.
- Strong system knowledge of server motherboards, CPU/GPU/AI accelerator platforms, storage backplanes, and power and cooling subsystems, including their management interfaces and controller partitioning.
- Strong 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 integration of device management with BMC-hosted Redfish services.
- Familiarity with server sideband interfaces such as I2C/SMBus, I3C, SPI, UART, GPIO, and PMBus, and their implications for connectivity, latency, reliability, and MCU requirements.
- Ability to create product requirements, business cases, roadmaps, and go-to-market plans.
- Strong communication skills with executive, technical, customer, and cross-functional audiences.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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 market requirements documents (MRDs), business cases, roadmap proposals, and investment priorities.
- Define use cases for rack-level monitoring and control, board housekeeping, power sequencing, reset control, sensor aggregation, telemetry, thermal management, power capping, fault reporting, and recovery.
- Define complete solutions encompassing silicon, embedded firmware, management-protocol stacks, SDKs, tools and GUIs, reference designs, and customer-specific tools and application layers.
- Lead technical discovery with hyperscaler platform teams, server OEMs and ODMs, BMC and firmware vendors, accelerator platform teams, and power and cooling partners.
- Map server and rack management architectures, controller placement, sideband connectivity, firmware ownership, and requirements for availability, serviceability, security, and lifecycle management.
- Assess competitors and alternatives, and turn market insights into differentiated product positioning and roadmap choices.
- Track relevant OCP initiatives, including DC-SCM/DC-SCI, and DMTF standards including MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, and Redfish; translate their implications into product and interoperability requirements.
- Create product positioning, messaging, launch plans, sales enablement materials, customer presentations, and competitive briefs.
- Position Renesas MCUs as BMC companion and satellite-controller solutions for secure, interoperable platform management, differentiating them from general-purpose MCUs and BMC SoCs.
- Connect product capabilities to customer use cases, ecosystem standards, reference designs, and business value.
- Support design-in activity with sales, field applications, and customer engineering teams.
- Align product line, architecture, silicon, software, applications, sales, and strategic customer teams; balance market opportunity, technical feasibility, development investment, and commercial return.
- Lead reviews for product concepts, business cases, roadmap choices, launch readiness, and customer priorities.
- Align silicon and firmware plans with customer platform schedules, BMC integration, protocol interoperability, reference-design validation, and deployment support.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Health savings account (with applicable medical plan)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Pet insurance
- Company-paid life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance for benefited employees
- Long-term disability benefits
- Short-term medical benefits
- Paid sick time
- Paid holidays
- Accrued paid vacation
- Bonus opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
