Principal TPM: Hardware Chiplet Tape-Out Lead

Annapurna Labs; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs, part of Amazon, is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to own end-to-end program execution for a mult-die ML accelerator chip—from RTL freeze through tape-out and into production readiness. You will align multiple engineering streams into a single schedule and drive critical-path decisions with cross-functional partners.

You will lead weekly status cadences, track verification convergence, manage external design partners, and ensure infrastructure readiness and IP

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects.
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams.
• Deep 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.
• Strong technical communication skills: ability to present crisp status to VP-level audiences, distinguishing signal from noise.

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 progression from feature completion through RTL closure, bug trends, and regression pass rates.
• Manage the external design partner interface, owning the netlist delivery calendar and negotiating schedule trades.
• Drive infrastructure readiness and external IP delivery by partnering with compute and EDA platform teams on capacity planning.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Chip development lifecycle

External partner coordination

Scheduling & dependency modeling

Technical communication

Job description

Annapurna Labs, part of Amazon, is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to own end-to-end program execution for a mult-die ML accelerator chip—from RTL freeze through tape-out and into production readiness. You will align multiple engineering streams into a single schedule and drive critical-path decisions with cross-functional partners.

You will lead weekly status cadences, track verification convergence, manage external design partners, and ensure infrastructure readiness and IP