Datacenter MPU Product Manager

About the role

NXP's Edge Processing Product Innovation team is looking for a Datacenter MPU Product Manager in Austin. The role owns the end-to-end product strategy and execution of AI-enabled edge MPUs, bridging market needs and engineering innovation. It suits a product leader who speaks both engineering and business, driving solutions for datacenter, networking, 5G and industrial automation use cases.

Key responsibilities

• Define and own the product roadmap for AI-enabled edge MPUs, aligned with market trends and customer needs
• Turn market problems into product requirements documents, feature specs and phased roadmaps, making data-driven trade-offs on silicon area, power, performance and BOM
• Collaborate with engineering on architecture decisions for heterogeneous compute, AI acceleration, real-time processing, security and connectivity
• Lead cross-functional teams (engineering, go-to-market, sales, applications, operations) through the product lifecycle
• Develop competitive positioning, value propositions and go-to-market strategies
• Build data-driven business cases and pricing strategies, and represent NXP at industry events and with key customers
• Drive adoption of MPUs with engineering, applications, sales, FAEs, customers and partners

Required profile

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering (MS/MBA a plus)
• 10+ years in product management, product marketing, customer management or systems engineering for MPUs, SoCs or embedded systems
• Ability to turn customer requirements into actionable specs for hardware, software and systems teams
• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving and ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities
• Domestic and international travel required to engage customers, partners and internal teams

Required skills

• Heterogeneous compute architectures (CPU/GPU/NPU/DSP), memory systems and interconnects
• AI and machine learning concepts, algorithms, frameworks and toolchains
• Edge AI applications such as computer vision, NLP and sensor fusion
• Working knowledge of Arm cores, PCIe and Ethernet
• Market analysis, competitive analysis and business case development
• Desirable: experience with datacenter architectures, NXP Layerscape and S32N processors, security including post-quantum crypto, and embedded software (Linux, RTOS)