ASIC Program Manager

What you’ll own

• End-to-end ASIC program execution from architecture through production
• Tapeout readiness, schedules, and cross-functional alignment
• Risk management across silicon, software, and system integration

What you’ll do

• Lead full lifecycle ASIC programs from early architecture through post-silicon validation and production
• Build and manage detailed schedules, milestones, and resource plans across distributed teams
• Drive tapeout execution across RTL, verification, DFT, physical design, packaging, and board teams
• Track readiness and sign-off criteria including timing, power, and design rule checks
• Manage ECO processes and silicon revision planning
• Coincide hardware and software timelines to ensure bring-up readiness
• Coordinate with firmware, drivers, SDKs, and system integration to align with silicon milestones
• Lead cross-functional reviews, tapeout readiness checkpoints, and program updates
• Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and progress clearly to leadership
• Establish KPIs and improve program management processes as the organization scales

What you bring

• 7+ years of program management experience in semiconductor or ASIC environments
• Proven experience leading complex ASIC tapeouts
• Strong understanding of the full silicon lifecycle from architecture to production
• Familiarity with tapeout flows, sign-off criteria, and foundry interactions
• Experience coordinating hardware and software teams across complex programs
• Strong communication skills with the ability to operate at both technical and executive levels
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-accountability environments

Nice to have

• Experience with AI chips or accelerator architectures
• Familiarity with advanced process nodes and modern foundry workflows
• Background in ASIC design, verification, or hardware engineering
• Experience with TSMC or leading semiconductor foundries
• PMP or similar program management certification

Why this role

• Own critical silicon programs from concept to production
• Work at the center of hardware, software, and system integration
• Drive execution on next-generation AI hardware
• High visibility and direct impact on product delivery

Details:

• 6-month contract
• Hybrid in Laguna Hills, CA (2–3 days onsite per week)