Efficient Computer

Efficient Computer

Senior Product Manager - Software

San Jose, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$160k-$210kDetected 7 days ago
LinuxMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchProduct ManagementProduct StrategyProject ManagementCadenceEmbedded SystemsLeadership

About the role

  • 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.
  • Understand when the right call is shipping a polished narrow capability vs. a rough broad one. - Influence silicon decisions based on software needs and constraints.

Responsibilities

  • Drive reduction in time-to-first-working-application (TTFWA) across customer segments. Define the metric, baseline it, track it, and own the roadmap items that move it.
  • Drive developer confidence through reproducible benchmarking, deterministic tooling behavior, clear diagnostics, and strong documentation.
  • Gather and prioritize developer feedback across evaluation, onboarding, optimization, and deployment phases. Maintain structured mechanisms to feed this directly into roadmap decisions.
  • Define requirements for profiling, debugging, and performance analysis workflows that allow developers to understand and optimize application behavior on Efficient hardware.
  • Influence silicon decisions based on software needs and constraints. Partner with the Hardware PM and architecture team when compiler or runtime requirements have silicon implications.
  • Establish and own developer success metrics and developer workflow metrics and diagnostics: build success rates, TTFWA, workflow completion rate, and friction points.
  • Define and own the SDK release cadence, packaging, distribution, and support lifecycle.
  • The Senior Product Manager - Software owns the strategy and direction for Efficient Computer's developer platform - including the compiler, SDK, runtime integrations, model enablement stack, and overall developer experience.
  • The Software PM defines what should be built, why it matters, how success is measured, and how priorities align with customer and company goals, while engineering teams own implementation and execution.
  • Maintain structured mechanisms to feed this directly into roadmap decisions.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of product management experience for developer-facing software platforms - SDKs, compilers, runtimes, APIs, ML tooling, or embedded developer ecosystems
  • Experience shipping tools and platforms used directly by external developers, including operating through the customer-zero phase
  • Strong understanding of modern ML inference and deployment pipelines (PyTorch, ONNX, ExecuTorch, LiteRT (formerly TensorFlow Lite), TensorRT, or equivalent)
  • Familiarity with software performance tradeoffs involving memory, latency, throughput, power, and hardware utilization
  • Ability to work effectively with compiler, runtime, systems software, and silicon architecture teams and to influence without authority across all of them
  • Ability to establish credibility with highly technical developers, compiler engineers, and ML practitioners through clear thinking, technical depth, and strong customer empathy.

Nice to have

  • Experience with compiler toolchains, IRs, and deployment flows (LLVM, MLIR, TOSA, XLA, or equivalent)
  • Experience with embedded AI deployment pipelines and edge inference workflows
  • Familiarity with embedded software ecosystems (FreeRTOS, CMSIS-NN, MCU SDK patterns) and Linux-based embedded development environments and cross-compilation workflows
  • Experience with performance profiling tools, compiler traces, and benchmark-driven optimization workflows
  • Experience with benchmarking methodologies (MLPerf or equivalent) - including designing, running, and publishing credible results
  • Experience operating in early-stage environments with incomplete requirements and rapidly evolving architectures
  • Why Join Efficient?

Skills

  • The compiler and SDK become a competitive advantage, not an adoption bottleneck
  • Software capabilities directly influence customer wins and silicon roadmap decisions

Compensation

  • We offer a competitive salary for this role, generally ranging from $160,000 to $210,000, along with meaningful equity and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

  • Lead framework and model enablement strategy across PyTorch, ONNX, ExecuTorch, LiteRT, and future runtimes, including compatibility, validation coverage, performance expectations, and support commitments.

Company info

  • 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
  • This role is critical to customer adoption and long-term ecosystem growth, translating Efficient's hardware capabilities into a scalable, developer-ready platform that enables customers to build, optimize, and deploy applications efficiently.
  • This is a highly cross-functional product leadership role focused on strategy, platform evolution, and business impact - not project management or sprint administration.
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