Sr Staff Engineer, Product Marketing

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.
• Product marketing and go-to-market: Create positioning, messaging, launch plans, sales enablement, customer presentations, and competitive briefs.
• Position Renesas MCUs as BMC companion and satellite-controller solutions for secure, interoperable platform management, with clear differentiation 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.
• Cross-functional execution: Align product line, architecture, silicon, software, applications, sales, and strategic customer teams.

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.
• 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.

Preferred

• Preferred: Experience with hyperscaler or enterprise servers, GPU/AI accelerator trays, rack management, power shelves, fan controllers, or liquid-cooling management.

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.