Technical Program Manager, AI Systems & Software

Ampere Computing LLC; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Income protection

401K retirement plan

Unlimited Flextime

10+ paid holidays

Job summary

Ampere Computing LLC in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead software capabilities for a physical AI program. You will coordinate software, hardware, firmware, and product teams to deliver high-quality software predictably, managing dependencies and risks across the ecosystem.

The role emphasizes turning ambiguity into structured plans, maintaining execution cadence, and delivering insights to leadership while advancing release quality and traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline—or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in technical program management, software development, systems engineering, product development, or a similar technical environment.
• Demonstrated success managing complex software programs across multiple engineering teams, stakeholders, suppliers, or partners.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, delivery methodologies, and release processes.
• Proficiency with Jira, Jama Connect, Confluence, or similar requirements and work-management platforms.
• Ability to build and maintain integrated schedules, roadmaps, dependency maps, execution plans, and program-level reporting.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to identify risks early, establish accountability, and drive actions to closure.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of software programs supporting physical AI products and systems.
• Translate program goals and product requirements into integrated plans, milestones, schedules, and roadmaps.
• Coordinate work across software, hardware, firmware, systems engineering, product, operations, security, quality, suppliers, and external partners.
• Establish and improve program operating mechanisms, including planning cadences, execution reviews, dependency reviews, and leadership updates.
• Create clarity around priorities, ownership, dependencies, and milestones across teams and workstreams.
• Manage requirements, traceability, dependencies, and change control using tools such as Jama Connect, Jira, and Confluence.
• Maintain risk, issue, action, and decision logs; drive ownership, escalation, and resolution.
• Build dashboards and automated reporting for milestone progress, scope changes, schedule confidence, quality trends, dependencies, risks, and issues.
• Use automation and data integrations—including Jama, Jira, spreadsheets, and APIs—to streamline roadmaps, reports, and program metrics.
• Communicate status, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical teams and senior leadership.
• Improve delivery processes without adding unnecessary bureaucracy, enabling predictable releases with appropriate quality and traceability.

Skills

Jira

Jama Connect

Confluence

Roadmaps

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related technical discipline

Tools

Jira

Jama Connect

Confluence

Job description

Ampere Computing LLC in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead software capabilities for a physical AI program. You will coordinate software, hardware, firmware, and product teams to deliver high-quality software predictably, managing dependencies and risks across the ecosystem.

The role emphasizes turning ambiguity into structured plans, maintaining execution cadence, and delivering insights to leadership while advancing release quality and traceability.