Efficient is developing the world’s most energy-efficient general-purpose computer processor. Efficient’s patented technology uses 100x less energy than state of the art commercially available ultra-low-power processors and is programmable using standard high-level programming languages and AI/ML frameworks. This level of efficiency makes perpetual, pervasive intelligence possible: run AI/ML continuously on a AA battery for 5-10 years. Our platform’s unprecedented level of efficiency enables IoT devices to intelligently capture and curate first-party data to drive the next major computing revolution
The Hardware Product Manager defines the silicon product strategy and roadmap for Efficient Computer's next-generation spatial computing platforms. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, silicon engineering, software, applications, and customer engagement by translating market and customer insight into actionable silicon product decisions.
The Hardware PM owns product direction, market requirements, customer priorities, tradeoffs, and roadmap decisions. Engineering owns implementation and execution, with the Hardware PM partnering closely on technical decisions.
This role carries significant influence on company strategy and product direction. It is best suited for candidates with strong product strategy, customer-facing, and technical decision-making experience.
Success looks like:
The roadmap reflects real customer requirements and competitive insight
Product specifications are complete, aligned and approved tapeout
The Hardware PM is the person engineering, sales, and customers all go to for board, silicon and IP product direction
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the silicon product roadmap, from near-term tape-out requirements to multi-generation platform strategy, based on customer requirements, competitive positioning, and architectural opportunity.
- Translate customer needs, market dynamics, and competitive insight into clear product specifications.
- Own the Market Requirements Document (MRD) process.with tradeoffs and ownership explicitly documented.
- Partner with engineering to define performance targets, power envelopes, memory architecture, interface requirements, and feature prioritization for each product generation.
- Lead customer discovery and requirements-gathering for silicon and IP capabilities.
- Represent Efficient's silicon in technical customer discussions, evaluation engagements, and design-win conversations.
- Drive alignment between product requirements and engineering execution priorities. Own the cross-functional product review process and ensure tradeoff decisions are made explicitly, documented, and communicated as well as provide clear product direction when tradeoff decisions are required.
- Partner with the Software PM on hardware-software co-design requirements and ensure silicon and IP roadmap decisions support a usable and scalable developer experience
- Own competitive analysis, benchmarking strategy, and product differentiation narrative.
- Define platform requirements, including silicon, development systems, evaluation kits and reference designs, to enable customer adoption and successful deployment.
Required Qualification
- 7+ years of experience in semiconductor product management, silicon architecture, or related technical leadership roles with direct ownership of product requirements, roadmap, and customer engagements
- Experience managing at least one full silicon product cycle from requirements definition through customer sampling, including spec ownership and tradeoff decisions
- Working knowledge of SoC architecture concepts: memory hierarchy, power domains, on-chip interconnects, compute accelerators, and interface standards, etc. sufficient to engage substantively with engineering teams
- Direct customer engagement experience: translating customer application requirements and deployment constraints into concrete silicon and IP product requirements
- Strong cross-functional leadership across architecture, design, verification, software, and applications teams, with the ability to drive alignment and make decisions without always having formal authority
- Ability to establish credibility with silicon architects, hardware engineers, and technically sophisticated customers through clear thinking, genuine technical depth, and accurate product judgment
We do not expect candidates to arrive with deep expertise in every area listed above. Strong product judgment, technical credibility, customer orientation, and the ability to learn quickly matter more than checking every box.
Preferred Qualification:
- Experience with MCUs, embedded AI processors, DSPs, FPGAs, spatial computing architectures, or dataflow accelerators
- Experience in a startup environment with high ownership, incomplete information, and rapidly evolving product requirements
- Familiarity with embedded AI deployment workloads and edge inference application requirements, including power budgets, latency targets, and memory constraints
- Experience with silicon benchmarking methodology and competitive analysis in the edge AI or embedded compute space
- Experience with compiler-hardware co-design or hardware-software interface definition for novel compute architectures
We offer a competitive salary for this role, generally ranging from $180,000 to $210,000, along with meaningful equity and comprehensive benefits. The final compensation package will be based on your experience and location, with some flexibility to ensure we align with the right candidate.
Why Join Efficient?
Efficient offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including 401K match, company-paid benefits, equity program, paid parental leave, and flexibility. We are committed to personal and professional development and strive to grow together as people and as a company.
