Senior Technical Program Manager, Chip Tools

What You'll Be Doing

• Own end-to-end program management for Chip Tools, beginning with Fuse, ensuring reliability, uptime, and performance meet the needs of hardware engineering teams across the chip development lifecycle.
• Drive tool health initiatives: define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), track incidents, lead root cause analysis, and deliver on improvement roadmaps that reduce friction and prevent recurrence.
• Build and maintain a dependency map across Chip Tools - understanding upstream and downstream relationships to surface risk, handle conflicts, and ensure alignment with the chip roadmap.
• Partner with HW engineering leads to translate the chip development roadmap into tool readiness requirements; proactively identify gaps and mobilize engineering resources to close them.
• Facilitate cross-team coordination across tool developers, infrastructure teams, and HW users - running structured program reviews, tracking action items, and holding teams accountable to commitments.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting mechanisms to give leadership and customers real-time insight into tool health, open risks, and delivery status.
• Find opportunities to evolve Chip Tools from reactive support into a proactive, system-focused operating model - and build the processes to get there.
• Onboard new tools into the Chip Tools portfolio as the scope expands beyond Fuse, establishing consistent standards for program management, change control, and incident response.

What We Need To See

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of technical program management experience, ideally in hardware, chip development, or engineering infrastructure environments.
• Deep familiarity with the hardware development lifecycle - you understand how chips get designed, verified, and manufactured, and where tools are critical path.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs with many interdependencies in a fast-moving organization.
• Strong instincts for dependency management: you can build a dependency graph, read it for risk, and drive mitigations before they become blockers.
• Experience owning tool or infrastructure reliability programs - you know what good uptime, incident management, and SLO frameworks look like.
• Clear and direct communicator: you can translate technical complexity into crisp executive summaries and credibly partner with both engineers and senior leadership.
• Data-driven approach to program management - you instrument what you own and use data to bring awareness, prioritize and demonstrate progress.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Direct experience with chip fusing, programming, or test infrastructure tools in a semiconductor company.
• Background owning internal developer tooling or platform engineering programs at scale.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA's chip development process, or with comparable processes at a leading semiconductor company.
• Experience building program management frameworks from the ground up - not just inheriting mature programs, but establishing structure in ambiguous environments.
• Track record of growing a TPM scope horizontally: starting with one product or tool and expanding ownership across a portfolio.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Application Information

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 22, 2026.