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Hardware Platform Product Manager

Nexthop AI · Santa Clara, California · On-site

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About Nexthop AI

Backed by a16z, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

As a Hardware Platform Product Manager, you’ll work on advanced technologies and products to solve interesting customer problems, playing a key role in driving and delivering the platform roadmap. This role is a great fit for a team player with a creative and learning mindset, and with solid engineering depth. It’s a great opportunity to work closely with the Nexthop leadership team and help deliver on their vision.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field - Master’s degree or MBA is a plus
  • Minimum 10 years of experience as a product manager, technical marketing engineer across networking technologies - switching, routing hardware systems, silicon, optics and interconnects
  • Minimum 5-7 years experience as a hardware engineer is a plus
  • Significant experience with network architectures for Hyperscaler, Cloud, HPC and AI/ML environments, including technology adjacencies
  • Proven ability to work independently in a fast paced, leading-edge environment, bringing domain expertise and enhancing team productivity
  • Excellent communication skills - verbal, written and presentation
More about this role

Nexthop AI is a team of industry-leading professionals with deep hardware and software expertise spanning silicon, systems, network operations and cloud development, dedicated to building innovative, bleeding-edge networking solutions for large-scale AI deployments. The team culture thrives on collaboration, creativity and fun while delivering foundational technologies for next-generation AI infrastructure.

As a Hardware Platform Product Manager, you’ll work on advanced technologies and products to solve interesting customer problems, playing a key role in driving and delivering the platform roadmap.

This role is a great fit for a team player with a creative and learning mindset, and with solid engineering depth. It’s a great opportunity to work closely with the Nexthop leadership team and help deliver on their vision.

Be the Subject Matter Expertise for Nexthop hardware platforms

  • Deliver exceptional customer experiences through deep expertise in Nexthop’s products and solutions, support key internal and external stakeholders
  • Collaborate with cross-functional Nexthop teams - hardware and software engineering, customer engineering, marketing, and account managers, to share...

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