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