Staff Technical Project Manager

About the role

The Technology Enabling Development Lab (TED) focuses on the host interface firmware layer for Samsung’s V-NAND technology. The Technical Project Manager (TPM) will oversee the strategy and operations for OCP S.A.F.E., a security evaluation program for enterprise and data center SSDs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive plans for OCP S.A.F.E. across multiple product generations, engineering teams, and SRPs.
• Manage vendor relationships with SRPs to ensure effective collaboration, issue resolution, and timely certification delivery.
• Collaborate with security engineering teams to ensure compliance with OCP S.A.F.E. specifications and cryptography implementations in storage applications.
• Track status on current certification submissions in progress, unblock engineers, and escalate blocker issues to management as needed.
• Work closely with business teams to provide visibility into certification schedules, timelines, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Drive process improvements through checklists, best practices, post-mortems to reduce QA time for certifications.
• Co-manage OCP S.A.F.E. program priorities, target dates, budget, and stakeholders.
• Maintain program status and drive dependencies/actions across geographies.
• Provide regular updates on program status to stakeholders.
• Represent security team at customer meetings, industry forums, and working groups.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or Master's degree with 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• 5 years of technical development experience in embedded environments, preferably in coding.
• Experience and knowledge with FIPS certification process is a plus.
• Proven experience managing complex technical projects across multiple stakeholders; excellent communication skills required.
• Experience working with third-party vendors.
• Good knowledge of cryptography principles, Storage Security Standards like OCP S.A.F.E., FIPS, NIST, etc.

Qualifications

• Must be eligible to work in the United States.

Skills

• Strong technical understanding of the subject matter.
• Ability to grow into more complex technical leadership roles.

Benefits

At Samsung Semiconductor, we offer a competitive compensation package including a base pay range of $163,000 - $253,000 USD, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional development and community involvement.

Pay

$163,000 - $253,000 USD

Schedule

Daily onsite presence at our San Jose headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy.