Technical Program Manager, Embedded Software

Acceler8 Talent; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is seeking a Technical Program Manager for embedded software to coordinate software efforts for new silicon from tape-out through customer deployment.

The role emphasizes direct experience with AI accelerators, firmware management, and cross-functional collaboration across ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, and systems teams. HQ in SF; remote work for US candidates is possible.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical programme or project-management experience.
• Direct experience with AI accelerators, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, or semiconductor products
• Experience managing embedded software, firmware, or driver programmes for new silicon
• Experience supporting tape-out, pre-silicon validation, first-silicon bring-up, or board bring-up
• Strong knowledge of firmware, Linux drivers, memory, DMA, interrupts, boot flows, and hardware-software interfaces
• Experience coordinating complex delivery across silicon and software engineering teams
• The technical depth to challenge plans, identify dependencies, and communicate risks clearly,

Responsibilities

• Owning embedded-software programmes across firmware, drivers, bootloaders, and board-support packages
• Aligning software delivery with tape-out, pre-silicon validation, first-silicon bring-up, board bring-up, and customer deployment
• Coordinating ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, compiler, runtime, and systems teams
• Driving readiness across device initialization, memory management, DMA, interrupts, command queues, and power management
• Resolving dependencies involving silicon errata, hardware interfaces, toolchains, and host operating systems
• Managing validation through simulation, FPGA prototyping, and hardware emulation
• Identifying technical and scheduling risks before they affect silicon or customer milestones.

Skills

Technical programme management

Embedded software

Firmware

Linux drivers

Hardware-software interfaces

Tape-out coordination

Cross-team coordination

ASIC/SoC knowledge

Tools

ZeBu

Veloce

Palladium

FPGA prototyping

Job description

Technical Program Manager, Embedded Software

Remote | United States | HQ in SF

$250k base + equity

I’m working with a well-funded AI semiconductor company developing a new accelerator architecture for high-performance, energy-efficient inference.

The company needs a Technical Program Manager with direct accelerator or semiconductor experience to coordinate the embedded software required to bring new silicon into production.

This is not a general software TPM role. Candidates must have managed firmware, drivers, or low-level software programmes tied directly to accelerator, SoC, or silicon milestones.

You’ll work on problems such as:

• Owning embedded-software programmes across firmware, drivers, bootloaders, and board-support packages
• Aligning software delivery with tape-out, pre-silicon validation, first-silicon bring-up, board bring-up, and customer deployment
• Coordinating ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, compiler, runtime, and systems teams
• Driving readiness across device initialization, memory management, DMA, interrupts, command queues, and power management
• Resolving dependencies involving silicon errata, hardware interfaces, toolchains, and host operating systems
• Managing validation through simulation, FPGA prototyping, and hardware emulation
• Identifying technical and scheduling risks before they affect silicon or customer milestones.

Must have:

• 8+ years of technical programme or project-management experience
• Direct experience with AI accelerators, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, custom SoCs, or semiconductor products
• Experience managing embedded software, firmware, or driver programmes for new silicon
• Experience supporting tape-out, pre-silicon validation, first-silicon bring-up, or board bring-up
• Strong knowledge of firmware, Linux drivers, memory, DMA, interrupts, boot flows, and hardware-software interfaces
• Experience coordinating complex delivery across silicon and software engineering teams
• The technical depth to challenge plans, identify dependencies, and communicate risks clearly,

Nice to have:

• Experience with ZeBu, Veloce, Palladium, FPGA prototyping, or similar environments
• Firmware or driver experience for custom accelerators
• Linux kernel, embedded Linux, or RTOS knowledge
• Experience managing external engineering partners or silicon vendors

The strongest candidates will understand how software readiness affects tape-out, first-silicon validation, board bring-up, and production deployment.