Principal Product Manager

Axiado is building a new kind of intelligence layer for AI infrastructure: a distributed silicon-rooted platform that secures optimizes and manages every endpoint in the AI rack from the first clock tick to full rack scale. At the heart of it is the Axiado Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) an AI-native platform that replaces reactive software-bound management with local inference and hardware-enforced action at every node. 

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead product definition and management for this effort. You will own the software firmware and AI/ML roadmap that turns individual TCUs into a coordinated self-aware platform while maintaining broad visibility across Axiados full data center silicon and hardware module portfolio. Reporting to the Head of Products and Marketing you will sit at the intersection of engineering customers and go-to-market: defining requirements driving alignment and shaping how an ambitious platform vision becomes shipping product. 

This is a high-visibility high-impact role with clear leadership trajectory as Axiados PM organization scales. You will work directly with our engineering team on platform architecture with customers on integration requirements and with product marketing on positioning and launch. You will not just manage a product line you will help define a category. 

What Youll Do 

• Own the SW/FW/AI-ML roadmap for the TCU platform spanning platform management software (BMC/RMC) the security stack (root of trust hardware firewall) and on-chip AI/ML inference prioritizing across competing engineering customer and business needs. 

• Translate an ambitious platform vision into product: define how local hardware-rooted inference at each node scales into fleet-level awareness and autonomous management and turn that architecture into PRDs acceptance criteria and shippable capabilities. 

• Serve as the cross-functional PM voice across the full TCU platform including silicon and hardware modules coordinating with hardware product management to ensure SW/FW roadmap decisions are informed by and aligned with system-level hardware requirements. 

• Drive requirements from concept through release: author PRDs define acceptance criteria and translate customer and market needs into actionable engineering work. 

• Be the customer interface for the TCU platform leading technical discussions with hyperscalers OEMs ODMs and CSPs to understand integration requirements and surface feedback into the roadmap. 

• Coordinate cross-functionally across firmware engineering hardware architecture software QA security and marketing to align on scope schedule and priorities. 

• Define and maintain feature prioritization across multiple concurrent development programs making clear tradeoff decisions with data to back them up. 

• Engage with ecosystem and standards bodies tracking and influencing relevant industry standards and competitive positioning in the platform management security and infrastructure orchestration space. 

• Support product launches and partner with product marketing on messaging collateral and customer-facing technical content that carries the platform narrative. 

• Grow and lead the PM function: as a principal-level owner set the standard for product management practice and take on mentorship and over time direct management responsibility for other PMs. 

Qualifications :

Required 

• 12 years of product management experience in semiconductor embedded systems or systems software with a demonstrated track record of shipping firmware or software products in a hardware-adjacent environment including experience owning a product line or platform at a principal or lead level. 

• Deep domain knowledge of BMC/RMC and data center platform management firmware including platform management standards out-of-band management architectures boot firmware and platform telemetry. 

• Hands-on experience with data center infrastructure firmware and software: you understand how firmware integrates into server and rack-level systems at hyperscale and OEM/ODM customers. 

• Strong technical foundation: you can hold your own in architecture discussions with firmware and ASIC engineers. A background in embedded software engineering firmware development or systems architecture is strongly preferred. 

• Experience working directly with customers on technical requirements: you are comfortable leading conversations with principal engineers and architects at major cloud or OEM accounts. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: able to write clear PRDs present to executives and represent Axiado externally with credibility to customers partners analysts and press. 

• A product leaders instinct for vision: comfort operating where the category is still being defined and the judgment to turn an ambitious platform vision into a concrete sequenced roadmap. 

Preferred / Desirable 

• Embedded or edge AI/ML: inference on resource-constrained hardware ML model deployment in firmware contexts or AI-driven platform management. 

• Hardware security: root of trust architectures secure boot attestation TPM/fTPM or cryptography. 

• Standards familiarity: NIST 800-193 OCP Security DMTF Redfish SPDM PLDM or related open standards in the data center platform management and security ecosystem. 

• Prior experience at a fabless semiconductor company or in a role where firmware is a first-class product not an afterthought. 

• Exposure to AI server or accelerator platforms (GPU servers AI ASICs custom silicon) and the management plane requirements they introduce. 

Additional Information :

Compensation Range - $80000 - $200000

Axiado is committed to attracting developing and retaining the highest caliber talent in a diverse and multifaceted environment. We are headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley with access to the worlds leading research technology and talent.

We are building an exceptional team to secure every node on the internet. For us solving real-world problems takes precedence over purely theoretical problems. As a result we prefer individuals with persistence intelligence and high curiosity over pedigree alone. Working hard and smart continuous learning and mutual support are all part of who we are.

Axiado is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Axiado does not discriminate on the basis of race religion color sex gender identity sexual orientation age non-disqualifying physical or mental disability national origin veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications merit and business need.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time