End-to-End Hardware & AI Programs Lead

Lumai Limited; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly Competitive Salary

Share Option Scheme

Pension Scheme

Private Health Insurance

Cycle to Work

L&D Allowance

Subsidised On-site Lunches

Holidays: 25 days paid holiday

Job summary

Lumai Limited in the UK is seeking a Project Manager to serve as the operational backbone of our most ambitious programmes, spanning silicon bring-up, photonic integration, firmware, and AI software. You will own end-to-end delivery and coordinate across hardware, firmware, AI applications, and operations teams.

Reporting to Head of Engineering, you will build plans, manage risks, run weekly reviews, and drive decisions while maintaining a clear, single source of truth for status updates and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project or programme management experience in hardware or deep tech contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects with hardware and software components.
• Strong working knowledge of hardware development lifecycles — EVT/DVT/PVT, tapeout, NRE, BOM management, CM relationships.
• Experience tracking ASIC or PCB development schedules with long lead times.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication for both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency with modern PM tools (Jira/Linear/Notion/Asana) and designing workflows.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a technical field.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of Lumai's core engineering programmes, including hardware, firmware bring-up, and AI software integration cycles.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, risk registers, and dependency maps across hardware, ASIC, photonics, firmware, and software workstreams.
• Run structured weekly programme reviews and steering meetings; produce status reports for leadership and investors.
• Identify and manage programme risks and blockers — escalating early and driving resolutions.
• Coordinate with supply chain, procurement, and external vendors (CM, foundry, packaging) to track milestones and prototype deliveries.
• Maintain a single source of truth for programme status, decisions, and actions.
• Support resource planning and headcount prioritisation; flag capacity conflicts early.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment between hardware engineers, firmware developers, AI researchers, and business stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Lumai's engineering operating model with better processes and tooling.

Skills

Project management

Hardware experience

Stakeholder management

Technical communication

PM tooling

Education

Engineering

Physics

Computer Science

Tools

Jira

Linear

Notion

Asana

Job description

Lumai Limited in the UK is seeking a Project Manager to serve as the operational backbone of our most ambitious programmes, spanning silicon bring-up, photonic integration, firmware, and AI software. You will own end-to-end delivery and coordinate across hardware, firmware, AI applications, and operations teams.

Reporting to Head of Engineering, you will build plans, manage risks, run weekly reviews, and drive decisions while maintaining a clear, single source of truth for status updates and