Senior Hardware PM — General-Purpose AI IP (GPNPU)

quadric technologies; Burlingame (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life Insurance

Voluntary life insurance

STD + LTD insurance

Commuter support including Caltrain

401(k) Retirement Plan

Flexible PTO

Winter holiday shutdown

Catered lunch

Downtown Burlingame office

Collaborative culture

Equity

Job summary

Quadric in Burlingame, CA hires a Senior Product Manager, Hardware, to own the Chimera GPNPU IP roadmap across compute, efficiency, scalability, safety, and integration. You will work with anchor SoC customers worldwide and guide feature sets for upcoming generations.

You'll lead architecture reviews with Tier-1 automotive and OEM teams, translate requirements into roadmap tracks, and productize integration knobs to accelerate customer adoption. Hybrid Bay Area role.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of Product Management experience focused on hardware or silicon products, with a senior IC background.
• Direct experience in at least two of: NPU/AI accelerator architecture, SoC integration, DSP/vector compute, automotive silicon, or semiconductor IP licensing.
• Proven experience leading technical architecture reviews with sophisticated buyers (Tier‑1 automotive, OEM SoC teams).
• Active adoption of agentic AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) in daily workflows.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer requirements, competitive pressures, and architectural constraints into track-by-track feature lists with explicit gating.
• Build the business and technical case for contested architecture decisions and lead trade‑off reviews with architects to bring clear recommendations to the Product Steering Committee (PSC).
• Drive IP usability by identifying silent customer workarounds and productizing proper architectural solutions.
• Serve as the named hardware product owner for key anchor accounts, presenting new features and integrating formal architecture feedback into the product roadmap.
• Conduct architecture reviews with technical buyers, including Tier‑1 automotive and OEM SoC design teams.
• Partner with international customers, particularly supporting key anchor accounts in the Japanese and global semiconductor markets.
• Analyze competitive architectures to anticipate market needs and inform product requirements before gaps appear in customer evaluations.
• Define and position SoC integration features, specifying which knobs are exposed and productized.
• Sequence functional safety positioning, lockstep configurations, FMEDA work, and safety‑island architectures for automotive and critical applications standards.

Skills

Hardware product management

NPU/AI accelerator architecture

SoC integration

DSP/vector compute

Automotive silicon

Semiconductor IP licensing

Architecture reviews

Customer engagement

Agentic AI tools

Education

EE/CE/CS engineering degree

Tools

RTL

Silicon implementation tooling

Synopsys

Arm

Cadence

Imagination

VeriSilicon

Job description

Quadric in Burlingame, CA hires a Senior Product Manager, Hardware, to own the Chimera GPNPU IP roadmap across compute, efficiency, scalability, safety, and integration. You will work with anchor SoC customers worldwide and guide feature sets for upcoming generations.

You'll lead architecture reviews with Tier-1 automotive and OEM teams, translate requirements into roadmap tracks, and productize integration knobs to accelerate customer adoption. Hybrid Bay Area role.