Nexthop AI
Hardware Platform Product Manager
Santa Clara, California · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jan 21, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years; 5-7 years of hardware engineering experience is a plus.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field; Master’s degree or MBA is a plus.
About the job
Own the hardware platform roadmap and drive product execution, customer adoption, and go-to-market for networking solutions used in large-scale AI deployments.
What you'll do
- Serve as a subject matter expert on Nexthop hardware platforms and support internal and external stakeholders.
- Gather and prioritize customer and partner requirements, communicate roadmaps, and drive on-time product execution.
- Develop go-to-market strategy and collateral, analyze competing solutions, and support launches and industry events.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience as a product manager or technical marketing engineer across networking technologies, including switching, routing hardware systems, silicon, optics and interconnects.
- Significant experience with network architectures for Hyperscaler, Cloud, HPC and AI/ML environments, including technology adjacencies.
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- 5-7 years experience as a hardware engineer.
Tools
switching, routing hardware systems, silicon, optics, interconnects, Hyperscaler, Cloud, HPC
AI focus
Drive hardware platform products and roadmaps for large-scale AI deployments and AI/ML network environments.
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