Senior Technical Program Manager - Hardware & Software

BrainChip, Inc.; Laguna Hills, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

BrainChip, Inc. in Laguna Hills, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs spanning silicon, hardware, firmware, software, system integration, and product delivery.

You will partner with technical teams to turn complex development plans into coordinated execution, building schedules, managing dependencies, identifying risks, and ensuring alignment through major milestones. Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of technical program, engineering program, project, or product-development management experience.
• Experience managing complex hardware, embedded, semiconductor, or hardware-software development programs.
• Ability to understand technical dependencies across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Experience building schedules, managing risks, and coordinating major development milestones.
• Strong organization, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence technical teams without relying solely on formal authority.
• Experience communicating with engineers, functional leaders, executives, and external partners.
• Experience with Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, Confluence, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex technical programs across silicon, hardware, firmware, software, validation, and operations.
• Develop integrated schedules connecting hardware-development and software-readiness milestones.
• Coordinate dependencies across architecture, engineering, system integration, testing, and product teams.
• Identify program risks, clarify ownership, and drive teams toward resolution plans.
• Facilitate cross-functional reviews, milestone meetings, and leadership updates.
• Track decisions, technical dependencies, deliverables, and critical-path activities.
• Support ASIC and SoC development, tapeout planning, and silicon-readiness activities.
• Coordinate firmware, drivers, development tools, boards, and pre-silicon platforms.
• Support hardware bring-up, system integration, validation, qualification, and production release.
• Work with engineering leaders to evaluate priorities, resources, schedules, and technical tradeoffs.
• Establish practical program dashboards, operating rhythms, and communication processes.
• Improve collaboration across engineering teams in multiple locations.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Scheduling and planning

Jira

Smartsheet

MS Project

Confluence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS

Tools

Jira

Smartsheet

MS Project

Confluence

Job description

BrainChip, Inc. in Laguna Hills, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs spanning silicon, hardware, firmware, software, system integration, and product delivery.

You will partner with technical teams to turn complex development plans into coordinated execution, building schedules, managing dependencies, identifying risks, and ensuring alignment through major milestones. Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.