Senior Chip Program Manager: Multi-Die Tape-out Leader

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

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

You will connect a sprawling set of engineering workstreams into a single coherent schedule, identify the real critical path week to week, and drive cross-functional decisions that keep the program on track.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience.
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
• 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 that tells leadership where we actually stand, including what is getting worse and what needs action.
• Track verification convergence as a leading indicator by monitoring the progression from 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 your partner's physical design timeline, and negotiating schedule trades with a clear understanding of downstream cost.
• Drive infrastructure readiness and external IP delivery by partnering with compute and EDA platform teams on capacity planning, and tracking third‑party PHY, memory interface, and controller IP deliveries against consuming blocks to elevate gaps before they become tape‑out critical.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Technical communication

Schedule optimization

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

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

You will connect a sprawling set of engineering workstreams into a single coherent schedule, identify the real critical path week to week, and drive cross-functional decisions that keep the program on track.