The Role: Amphenol Military High Speed is seeking a technical, market-driven
Product Line Manager to lead the lifecycle strategy, development, and commercial success of our high-performance VPX embedded computing portfolio.
In this role, you will bridge the gap between engineering innovation and market demand, defining the roadmap for rugged network switches tailored for military, defense, and aerospace applications. You will work closely with hardware engineers, system architects, and prime defense contractors to deliver cutting-edge systems capable of operating in the world's harshest environments.
The key responsibilities of this
Product Line Manager include, but are not limited to:
- Product Strategy & Roadmap: Own the end-to-end lifecycle strategy for 3U and 6U VPX form-factor hardware, ensuring product-market fit, long-term profitability, and alignment with corporate strategy
- Standards Compliance: Maintain deep knowledge of industry standards; drive product compliance with VITA (OpenVPX) specifications and actively steer products toward SOSA™ (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) alignment
- Requirements Definition: Translate complex customer requirements and market needs into clear Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), balancing critical SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) constraints
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with hardware, software, thermal, and mechanical engineering teams to guide products from conceptual design through prototyping, testing, and production
- Market Intelligence & Go-To-Market: Conduct regular competitive analysis and track technology trends (e.g., PCIe Gen 4/5/6, high-speed optical interconnects, advanced cooling methods). Enable sales and field application engineering (FAE) teams with highly technical collateral, training, and value proposition messaging
- Lifecycle Management: Manage component obsolescence (DMSMS) strategies to ensure long-term availability and support for defense program lifecycles spanning 10+ years
- Other duties as assigned
Location: Endicott, NY
Salary: $85,000 to $130,000 Annually
The Person: The key skills and qualities of a
Product Line Manager at Amphenol Aerospace Operations:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 3-5+ years of product management, systems engineering, or technical sales experience in the embedded computing, defense, or aerospace industries.
- Strong architectural understanding of OpenVPX standards, backplane design, system-on-chip (SoC) architectures (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, or NXP), and high-speed serial fabrics (Ethernet, PCIe).
- Familiarity with military standards (e.g., MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461) for ruggedization against shock, vibration, and extreme temperatures.
- Exceptional ability to translate highly technical hardware features into clear, business-focused value propositions for both engineering teams and executive customers.
- Ability to gain a full understanding of the objectives of the product line while working independently towards achieving those goals
- Maintain total knowledge of all aspects of their assigned product(s), including key account and strategic customers, costs and pricing, sales opportunities, competition, market conditions, manufacturing methods (and opportunities)
- Will interface at all levels of departmental and top management at Amphenol
- Responsible for direction, strategy and growth for product line
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required. (20-25%)
With offices in Endicott and Sidney, NY and leveraging manufacturing sites in Sidney, NY, Mesa, AZ, and Nogales, MX, Amphenol Military High Speed specializes in rugged high-speed connectors, cables, assemblies, ethernet switches, media converters, and more in copper, fiber optics, or both.
Focusing on serving the needs of advanced and challenging market segments, we pride ourselves on our consistent ability to innovate and provide the markets with new creative solutions.
Working at Amphenol means you are recognized and valued for your contributions because we believe that our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. We support and encourage career development for all employees and have ample opportunities for advancement.
We pride ourselves for being customer-centric, accountable, reliable, and enthusiastic in all that we do. These values are ingrained in each of us and contribute to a culture of teamwork and meaningful work.
Amphenol offers a competitive pay and benefits. The candidate must be able to legally work in the United States; we are unable to provide sponsorship. This position requires access to controlled technology that is subject to US export controls. Qualified candidates must be a US person (including US Citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) or eligible to obtain required authorization(s) from the U.S. Government.
