Senior Staff Engineer, Product Marketing

Job Title

Senior Staff Engineer, Product Marketing

Role Summary

Senior technical product-marketing role focused on MCU-based platform-management and control-plane solutions for datacenter server systems. The role translates system requirements from hyperscalers, OEMs/ODMs, and ecosystem partners into silicon and firmware product definitions, roadmaps, reference solutions, and go-to-market plans.

Work includes product definition for distributed management controllers and collaboration with silicon, firmware, applications, sales, and customer-engineering teams.

Experience Level

Senior - requires 8+ years of relevant experience in system architecture, server platform management, embedded systems, semiconductor product definition, technical product management, or applications engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead product definition, customer discovery, and go-to-market activities for MCU companion and satellite-controller solutions in server and rack environments.

• Define MCU requirements for platform management across compute, accelerator, storage, power, and cooling subsystems.
• Translate customer and market input into MRDs, business cases, roadmap proposals, and investment priorities.
• Specify use cases: rack-level monitoring/control, power sequencing, reset control, sensor aggregation, telemetry, thermal management, power capping, fault reporting, and recovery.
• Define complete solutions: silicon, embedded firmware, protocol stacks (MCTP/PLDM/SPDM/Redfish integration), SDKs, tools/GUIs, and reference designs.
• Lead technical discovery with hyperscalers, OEMs/ODMs, BMC and firmware vendors, accelerator teams, and power/cooling partners.
• Assess competitors and convert insights into differentiated positioning and roadmap choices.
• Create positioning, messaging, launch plans, sales enablement, and customer presentations; support design-in activities with sales and field engineering.
• Align cross-functional teams on product concepts, roadmaps, launch readiness, and customer schedules.

Requirements

Required technical skills and experience to perform the role.

Must have:

• Deep system knowledge of server motherboards, CPU/GPU/AI accelerator platforms, storage backplanes, and power/cooling subsystems and their management interfaces.
• Understanding of BMC-based out-of-band management, satellite controllers, MCU/RTOS firmware, and boundaries between local real-time control and system-level management.
• Working knowledge of MCTP transport, PLDM monitoring/control and firmware update, SPDM authentication/measurement, and Redfish integration concepts.
• Familiarity with sideband interfaces (I2C/SMBus, I3C, SPI, UART, GPIO, PMBus) and their implications for connectivity, latency, reliability, and MCU design.
• Demonstrated ability to create product requirements, business cases, roadmaps, and go-to-market plans; strong communication with executive, technical, and customer audiences.

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 (secure boot, hardware root of trust, signed firmware updates, recovery, SDKs, reference designs).
• Experience with server bring-up, power sequencing, telemetry and fault diagnostics, firmware lifecycle management, or customer design-ins with hyperscalers/OEMs/ODMs.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field. Advanced degree in engineering or business is preferred; equivalent senior product-strategy experience is also acceptable. The posting specifies 8+ years of relevant experience for this senior role.

About the Company

Company: Renesas

Headquarters: Hitachinaka, Japan

Renesas is a global leader in embedded semiconductor solutions, providing high-quality products across automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT sectors. With over 22,000 employees in more than 30 countries, the company focuses on scalable solutions that enhance user experience and drive innovation while committed to sustainability and energy efficiency.