Software Project Manager II - Foundation

ASML Germany GmbH; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 149,625 - 224,438; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

ASML Germany GmbH in San Jose area is seeking a Software Project Manager II to lead foundation software projects across multiple product lines, coordinating with software, systems, hardware, firmware, validation, manufacturing, and service teams.

You will develop integrated project plans, monitor milestones, and drive on-time delivery while managing dependencies and risk, ensuring platform capabilities meet scalability, reliability, and performance goals.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in technical project management, program management, software engineering, or systems engineering.
• Experience delivering complex software development programs.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders across product organizations.
• Semiconductor equipment, industrial automation, or enterprise platform experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of foundation software projects supporting multiple product lines.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, and foundation roadmaps.
• Monitor performance and ensure timely delivery of critical platform capabilities.
• Facilitate milestone reviews, release readiness reviews, and executive status updates.
• Collaborate with multiple product teams to understand requirements and prioritize platform investments.
• Align foundation software roadmaps with product and business objectives.
• Manage dependencies across software, systems, hardware, firmware, validation, manufacturing, and service organizations.
• Drive decision-making and issue resolution across stakeholder groups.
• Coordinate planning for platform architecture enhancements, technology upgrades, and infrastructure initiatives.
• Support design reviews and technical planning activities.
• Ensure platform capabilities meet scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability requirements.
• Drive standardization and reuse across product teams.

Skills

Software Development Lifecycle

Agile/Scrum

Jira/Azure DevOps

Release planning

Risk management

Product lifecycle management

Platform/infrastructure concepts

Job description

Introduction to the job

The Software Project Manager II Foundation is responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving delivery of foundation software capabilities that support multiple semiconductor equipment products. This role partners with software development managers, architects, systems engineers, and product teams to ensure common platform components are delivered on schedule, meet quality objectives, and are successfully adopted across the product portfolio.

The successful candidate will manage cross-product dependencies, align competing priorities, identify and mitigate risks, and provide clear visibility into roadmap execution for shared software infrastructure and platform initiatives.

Role and responsibilities

Program Leadership & Execution

• Lead end-to-end execution of foundation software projects supporting multiple product lines.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, and foundation roadmaps.
• Monitor performance and ensure timely delivery of critical platform capabilities.
• Facilitate milestone reviews, release readiness reviews, and executive status updates.

Cross-Product Coordination

• Collaborate with multiple product teams to understand requirements and prioritize platform investments.
• Align foundation software roadmaps with product and business objectives.
• Manage dependencies across software, systems, hardware, firmware, validation, manufacturing, and service organizations.
• Drive decision-making and issue resolution across stakeholder groups.

Technical Program Management

• Coordinate planning for platform architecture enhancements, technology upgrades, and infrastructure initiatives.
• Support design reviews and technical planning activities.
• Ensure platform capabilities meet scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability requirements.
• Drive standardization and reuse across product teams.

Risk & Dependency Management

• Identify and proactively manage technical, schedule, and resource risks.
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Escalate critical issues and drive resolution through closure.
• Track cross-functional dependencies and integration readiness.

Stakeholder Communication

• Provide concise and accurate program status to engineering leadership.
• Maintain dashboards, metrics, and program reviews.
• Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Build alignment across geographically distributed teams.

Education and experience

• 5–8 years of experience in technical project management, program management, software engineering, or systems engineering.
• Experience delivering complex software development programs.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders across product organizations.
• Semiconductor equipment, industrial automation, or enterprise platform experience preferred.

Skills

• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Jira, Azure DevOps, or Project Online similar tools
• Release planning and dependency management
• Risk management and project controls
• Product lifecycle management
• Platform and infrastructure development concepts

Other information

Success Metrics

• On-time delivery of foundation platform releases.
• Successful adoption across multiple product lines.
• Reduction in integration and dependency-related issues.
• Increased software reuse and platform standardization.
• Improved schedule predictability and execution transparency.
• Achievement of quality, reliability, and performance objectives

The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:

$149,625-224,438

Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.

The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.

Inclusion and diversity

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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