Hardware Product Manager

Quick Facts

• Title: Hardware Product Manager

• Location: San Jose, California

• Type: Permanent

• Salary: $150,000–200,000 per year

• Work hours: 9am–5pm

Role Description

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for high-performance Ethernet switches for AI clusters and modern data centers. Focus areas include Broadcom-based switch platforms, CPO architectures, and advanced thermal, power, and liquid-cooling designs to meet customer, market, and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define and own long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for data center switch platforms (e.g., 400G/800G/1.6T), aligned to AI/cloud workloads and hyperscaler needs

• Analyze data center trends (AI fabrics, scale-out networking, CPO adoption, liquid cooling, power density growth) and translate customer needs into product requirements and competitive positioning

• Drive competitiveness across performance, power efficiency, thermal design, reliability, and cost

• Make architecture decisions around Broadcom ASIC selection, port configurations, optics/CPO integration, and overall system architecture

• Lead product direction for CPO (OE/RLM management, CMIS alignment, port-to-engine mapping)

• Partner on liquid cooling, airflow fallback, power delivery, and thermal margin design for high-power ASIC systems

• Ensure compliance with standards and regulations (NEBS, IEC, CE, FCC, RoHS, Telcordia) and drive EVT/DVT/PVT readiness and field reliability with validation teams

• Coordinate cross-functional delivery with ASIC, hardware, firmware, thermal, mechanical, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, and sales from concept to mass production and customer deployment

Requirements

• 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)

• Strategic thinking, execution skills, and ability to work across global engineering teams

• Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders

Benefits

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 (eligibility based).