Senior Product Manager - Sensing & Compute
Job Summary
As a Senior Technical Product Manager - Sensing & Compute, you will focus on driving the product vision, ensuring seamless execution across the complex hardware/software divide, and translating market demands into user-oriented, executable product roadmaps.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities or Key Accountabilities
Own and maintain the sensing and compute roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities.
Collaborate with development teams to refine architectures for perception, localization, sensor processing, AI/ML workloads, balancing performance with product constraints.
Lead product requirements for safe perception and redundancy.
Define infrastructure requirements for data collection and evaluation.
Define and prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs.
Ensure that product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers.
Synthesize insights from user research, customer meetings, usage data, and sales feedback into a strategy that delivers business objectives and customer benefits.
Define product features/enhancements and communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of your products.
Skills and Requirements
Demonstrated experience managing hardware/software products in edge compute, sensor fusion, or perception pipelines.
Strong understanding of compute architectures (e.g., GPUs, functional safety islands, safety MCUs) and their deployment in robotic or autonomous systems.
Subject matter expertise in defining data pipelines and infrastructure for machine learning and autonomy stacks.
Strong analytical skills with experience in performance tracking, system error budgets, and data-driven decision-making.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to translate technical insights into business impact.
You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.
You prioritize user feedback, promoting that voice to internal teams.
Education and/or Experience
7+ years of experience in product management, or engineering roles.
Physical Requirements
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen.
- Hearing and speech to communicate.