Senior Staff Engineer, Product Marketing (AI datacenter infrastructure)

Responsibilities

• This senior role combines datacenter server-system expertise with product definition and marketing for MCU-based platform-management and control-plane solutions.
• The candidate will understand how server motherboards, CPU and GPU/AI accelerator trays, storage backplanes, power systems, and cooling subsystems are monitored and controlled.
• The focus is distributed management controllers, satellite controllers, and board-management MCUs that work alongside the baseboard management controller (BMC), rather than a replacement for the BMC itself.
• Working with hyperscalers, server OEMs, ODMs, and ecosystem partners, the candidate will translate system requirements into differentiated silicon, firmware, reference solutions, business cases, roadmaps, and go-to-market plans.
• Translate customer and market input into 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 the complete solution: silicon, embedded firmware, management-protocol stacks, SDKs, tools/GUIs, reference designs, and customer-specific tools and application layer.
• Customer and market discovery: Lead technical discovery with hyperscaler platform teams, server OEMs/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; convert insights into differentiated positioning and roadmap choices.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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 how device management integrates 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.

Preferred

• 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.
• Advanced degree in engineering or business, or equivalent senior product strategy experience.

Benefits

• Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.