Product Manager III - Embedded Systems

VIZIO; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) and stock purchase

Company-paid life insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

VIZIO in Irvine, CA is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the evolution of the Inscape ACR client platform, a foundational technology embedded on millions of Smart TVs.

You will partner with embedded software, platform, data engineering and science teams to define strategy, roadmaps, and requirements that balance hardware constraints, performance, memory usage, and data quality while driving cross-functional execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field; equivalent practical experience accepted.
• 3+ years in product management for technical platforms or firmware.
• Strong understanding of embedded systems and hardware/software tradeoffs.
• Experience with SQL, REST APIs; C/C++ highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Inscape ACR client platform.
• Collaborate with embedded engineers and platform architects to modernize architecture.
• Make tradeoff decisions on performance, memory, CPU, and BOM efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, media frameworks, and new architectural approaches.
• Write requirements, specifications, use cases, and success metrics.
• Coordinate priorities across TV firmware timelines and cross-functional teams.
• Gather input from customers, partners, sales, engineering, legal, and business stakeholders.
• Drive alignment for the product vision and roadmap internally and with partners.
• Define platform health and performance metrics and work to improve them.
• Manage relationships with chipset vendors and platform partners.
• Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, data teams, QA, PM, and business groups.
• Oversee initiatives on performance optimization, scalability, and content recognition.

Skills

Embedded systems

Product management

C/C++

SQL

REST APIs

Hardware optimization

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

FFmpeg

GStreamer

Video pipelines

Job description

Position Summary...VIZIO is pioneering big data products powered by Smart TV viewing data. We are looking for an experienced, highly technical Product Manager to lead the evolution of the Inscape Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) client platform, a foundational technology embedded on millions of Smart TVs.

As an industry leader in automatic content recognition, Inscape sits at the intersection of embedded systems, video technologies, consumer electronics, and large-scale data products. This role is responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the ACR client platform while driving innovation in how content recognition capabilities are delivered on resource-constrained TV hardware.

The ideal candidate has deep experience with embedded software platforms and understands the tradeoffs between hardware capabilities, software performance, memory utilization, CPU consumption, and overall device cost. You will help shape the future of the ACR client architecture, modernize core technologies, and identify new ways to improve efficiency, scalability, and data quality across VIZIO's television ecosystem.

In this role, you will work directly with TV platform teams, chipset manufacturers, embedded engineering, data engineering, and data science teams to deliver the next generation of content recognition technologies and data products.

What you’ll do

• Define and drive the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Inscape ACR client platform.
• Partner closely with embedded software engineers and platform architects to modernize the ACR client architecture and underlying technologies.
• Drive product decisions that balance customer needs, system performance, memory footprint, CPU utilization, power consumption, and bill of materials (BOM) efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies, media processing frameworks, AI and machine learning capabilities, and new architectural approaches to evolve the ACR platform.
• Write product requirements, technical specifications, use cases, and success metrics for complex platform initiatives.
• Manage prioritization and tradeoff decisions across development timelines, TV firmware release schedules, technical debt, and business objectives.
• Collect and synthesize inputs from customers, partners, sales, engineering, legal, and business stakeholders to define product strategy and investment priorities.
• Create organizational alignment and buy-in for the product vision and roadmap, both internally and externally.
• Define key platform health, performance, and business metrics and partner with engineering teams to achieve them.
• Manage relationships with TV chipset vendors and platform partners.
• Drive cross-functional execution across embedded engineering, data engineering, data science, QA, program management, and business teams.
• Serve as the product leader for initiatives involving performance optimization, platform scalability, and next-generation content recognition capabilities.

About You

• You have experience in product management experience leading highly technical platform, embedded software, consumer electronics, or firmware-based products.
• You have a strong understanding of embedded systems and the tradeoffs required to deliver high-performance software on resource-constrained devices.
• You have experience working with Embedded Linux and firmware-level integrations.
• You understand how software architecture impacts hardware requirements, device performance, memory usage, CPU utilization, and overall product cost.
• You have experience with media processing technologies such as FFMPEG, GStreamer, video pipelines, or similar frameworks.
• You have experience modernizing existing platforms and driving complex technical transformations.
• You can work effectively with engineers on architecture, performance optimization, and system design discussions.
• You have knowledge of SQL, REST APIs, and software development concepts; experience with C or C++ is highly desirable.
• You have proven success shipping complex products that require coordination across engineering, data science, business teams, and external partners.
• You are highly organized and rigorous in execution while maintaining a strategic, long-term perspective.
• You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves and diving into technical details when needed.
• You have exceptional communication, presentation, and writing skills.
• You are skilled at creating product artifacts, technical requirements, business cases, and executive-level communications.
• You hold a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For Information About Benefits And Eligibility, See One.Walmart.

Irvine, California US-11570: The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00 - $216,000.00

Denver, Colorado US-11581: The annual salary range for this position is $99,000.00 - $198,000.00

San Francisco, California US-11873: The annual salary range for this position is $117,000.00 - $234,000.00

Dallas, Texas US-11879: The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 3 years’ experience in product management.

Option 2: 5 years’ experience in product management or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 2 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location

35 Tesla, Irvine, CA 92618-4603, United States of America

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