Hardware Product Manager

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location: San Jose, California job type: Permanent salary: $150,000 - 200,000 per year work hours: 9am to 5pm education: No Degree Required

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Job Description

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager for data center switching hardware.

This role owns the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for high-performance Ethernet switches used in AI clusters and modern data centers. The position focuses on Broadcom-based switch platforms, CPO architectures, and advanced thermal, power, and liquid-cooling designs, ensuring products meet customer, market, and compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Product Line Strategy

Define and own the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for our data center switch platforms (e.g., 400G/800G/1.6T). Ensure alignment with business goals, AI and cloud workloads, and hyperscaler requirements. Track product performance, cost, and adoption, and adjust strategy as needed.

Market and Customer Analysis

Analyze data center trends including AI fabrics, scale-out networking, CPO adoption, liquid cooling, and power density growth. Translate customer needs from hyperscalers, CSPs, and OEM partners into clear product requirements and competitive positioning.

Hardware and System Competitiveness

Ensure strong competitiveness across performance, power efficiency, thermal design, reliability, and cost. Drive decisions around Broadcom ASIC selection, port configurations, optics/CPO integration, and system architecture.

CPO, Power, and Thermal Leadership

Own product direction for Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), including OE/RLM management, CMIS alignment, and port-to-engine mapping. Partner with hardware teams on liquid cooling, airflow fallback, power delivery, and thermal margin design for high-power ASIC systems.

Hardware Compliance and Quality

Ensure products meet industry standards and compliance (NEBS, IEC, CE, FCC, RoHS, Telcordia, reliability and stress testing). Work closely with validation teams to drive EVT/DVT/PVT readiness and field reliability.

Cross-Functional Execution

Work closely with ASIC, hardware, firmware, thermal, mechanical, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, and sales teams to ensure successful product delivery from concept to mass production and customer deployment.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
• 5+ years of product management experience in networking hardware or data center infrastructure
• Strong understanding of Ethernet data center switches, Broadcom ASICs, and switch system architecture
• Working knowledge of CPO, optical modules, CMIS, power delivery, thermal design, and liquid cooling
• Experience with hardware lifecycle management (EVT/DVT/PVT, compliance, manufacturing ramp)
• Strong strategic thinking, execution skills, and ability to work across global engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders

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skills:

ASIC,AI,Broadcom,cloud workloads

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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