Position Details:
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
About The Position
NewPhotonics is a fabless semiconductor engineering innovative optical-first silicon photonic product and technology for AI interconnect in data centers and hyperscaler infrastructure. Our market-disrupting PIC solutions enable energy efficiency, production simplicity and volume manufacturing of pluggable, NPO and CPO chips and engine platforms that will deliver compact-packaged optical connectivity in scale-out, scale-up and scale-across networks.
What you will own
• Portfolio and roadmap. Set the multi-generation roadmap for PICs, integrated lasers, optical engines, chiplets and enabling firmware. Prioritize build / partner / custom choices against customer needs, maturity, integration effort and economics.
• Customer-backed product definition. Translate cloud, AI system and module-maker needs—bandwidth, power, latency, thermals, reliability, interoperability and manageability—into product requirements, optical/electrical/control interfaces and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Technical product and system decisions. Drive PIC, EIC/ASIC, laser, package and board trade-offs with hardware, embedded FW/SW and systems teams. Define HW/FW boundaries, deterministic control, initialization and calibration, monitoring/telemetry, fault handling and host interfaces.
• Design wins and customer enablement. Drive design-ins through EVBs/HDKs, reference designs, datasheets, firmware interfaces, samples, integration guides and demos. Own end-to-end interoperability, customer integration issues and qualification closure.
• Productization and ramp. Lead productization from tapeout and HW/FW bring-up through wafer test, KGD, packaging, characterization, system validation, reliability, yield and ramp. Validate optical, electrical, thermal and real-time control behavior as one product.
• Product economics. Own business cases, competitive benchmarking, ASP/COGS and gross-margin targets, pricing strategy, forecasts and lifecycle decisions. Quantify customer value using performance, integration complexity, power and total cost of ownership.
• Ecosystem and growth. Help shape strategic relationships with foundries, OSATs, laser and component suppliers, and integration partners. Identify repeatable platform opportunities alongside customer-specific PIC / optical ASIC solutions.
Requirements
What you bring
• 8+ years in complex semiconductor, optical connectivity or high-speed hardware products, including meaningful ownership in product management, product line management or a closely related customer-facing technical business role.
• Evidence of taking a complex hardware/semiconductor product from customer requirements through chip and system bring-up, hardware/firmware integration, validation, design-in and production readiness.
• A solid engineering foundation (BSc or higher in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Physics or related discipline) and the ability to challenge and guide detailed technical decisions without needing to be the chip designer.
• Experience in at least one relevant domain: silicon photonics / optical communications, high-speed SerDes / connectivity silicon, optical engines, or advanced chiplets and packaging, with an appreciation of system-level dependencies.
• Working understanding of embedded firmware/software and real-time system concepts—sequencing, control loops, diagnostics, failure recovery and HW/SW interfaces—and the ability to translate them into customer-visible product requirements.
• Commercial judgment: ability to build a credible product business case, assess competitive differentiation, negotiate technical scope, and connect roadmaps to design wins, margin and revenue.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English; comfort engaging senior customer engineers and executives and leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Especially valuable
Direct experience with integrated lasers / III-V-on-silicon, MRM/MZI/EAM technologies, NPO/CPO optical engines, advanced packaging, chiplet interfaces, or hyperscaler / Tier-1 design-ins. Familiarity with MCU firmware, real-time control loops, device telemetry, management interfaces (e.g., I²C / MDIO / CMIS), bring-up tools and foundry / OSAT flows is an advantage—not a requirement across every area.
What success looks like
A customer-validated roadmap; compelling optical-plus-system differentiation; faster design-ins and integration; explicit performance, reliability, yield and cost targets; and products that progress from demonstrations to scalable revenue.
If you enjoy working where photonics, semiconductor products and AI infrastructure meet—and want to own more than a slide deck—we would like to hear from you.