Principal Chip Program Manager: Multi-Die Tape-Out Leader

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 177,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs, Inc, part of Amazon's AWS silicon team, seeks a Principal Technical Program Manager to own end-to-end program execution for the Trainium/Inferentia ML accelerator chip from RTL freeze through tape-out and production readiness.

You will connect multiple engineering workstreams into a coherent schedule, identify critical paths weekly, and drive cross-functional decisions with external partners, vendors, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience managing complex technology projects.
• Deep working knowledge of the chip development lifecycle: RTL verification milestones, physical design convergence, DFT, and timing closure.
• Experience managing programs with external design partners and IP vendors where you don't control the resources but own the outcome.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain integrated schedules with real dependency modeling — not just Gantt charts, but an understanding of which paths have float and which don't.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated schedule and critical path analysis across multiple die tape-outs through engineering samples and production ramp.
• Drive the weekly chip status cadence by synthesizing inputs from RTL/DV, physical design, packaging, power, infrastructure, and post-silicon teams into a single view.
• Track verification convergence as a leading indicator by monitoring feature completion through RTL closure, bug trends, and regression pass rates by block.
• Manage the external design partner interface, owning the netlist delivery calendar, tracking partner's physical design timeline, and negotiating schedule trades.
• Drive infrastructure readiness and external IP delivery by partnering on capacity planning and tracking third-party IP deliveries against consuming blocks.

Skills

Program management

Schedule optimization

Cross-functional leadership

External partner management

Dependency modeling

Communication with leadership

Chip development lifecycle

Job description

Annapurna Labs, Inc, part of Amazon's AWS silicon team, seeks a Principal Technical Program Manager to own end-to-end program execution for the Trainium/Inferentia ML accelerator chip from RTL freeze through tape-out and production readiness.

You will connect multiple engineering workstreams into a coherent schedule, identify critical paths weekly, and drive cross-functional decisions with external partners, vendors, and infrastructure teams.