Technical Program Manager, Silicon

United States Digital Space LLC; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 365,000 - 435,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own end-to-end silicon execution from architecture to tapeout, bring-up, and production ramp.

You will coordinate with front-end design, verification, PD/DFT, foundry, packaging, and OSAT partners, driving vendor evaluations and critical build decisions in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in silicon/SoC program management or equivalent end-to-end chip schedule ownership.
• Direct ownership of at least one taped-out production program with detailed milestones.
• Fluency across front-end, DV, PD, DFT, foundry, packaging.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated silicon program plan across architecture, RTL, DV milestones, IP delivery, PD closure, DFT, tapeout, bring-up.
• Drive external partner execution across ASIC design partners, IP vendors, foundry, packaging/test.
• Run technology and IP selection, evaluate candidates, and land build/buy/license decisions with engineering leadership.
• Build lightweight execution mechanisms: milestone definitions, risk tracking, design reviews, release management, exec reporting.
• Interface silicon with hardware systems for package/board bring-up and software teams for co-design.

Skills

Program management

Written communication

Silicon lifecycle

External partner management

Education

BS/MS in EE/CE/CS

Tools

SOW scoping

EDA/ASIC workflow

Job description

About the company

the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

the company is building custom silicon for Claude. The hardware our models run on is one of the most direct levers we have on capability, cost, and reliability — and we've decided to take design authority over it ourselves.

We're looking for a Technical Program Manager to own end-to-end execution of our silicon, from architecture definition through tapeout, first-silicon bring-up, and production ramp. You'll be working alongside a small group of domain experts across front-end design, verification, physical design, DFT, analog/mixed-signal, foundry, and packaging. There is no process to inherit — you'll build the execution machinery this program runs on.

This is a partner-heavy program by design. You'll drive a portfolio of external engagements — ASIC design services, IP vendors, foundry, and OSAT. You should have shipped chips before, know what a realistic silicon schedule looks like and its failure modes, and be comfortable making consequential program calls without a large organization behind you. And because this is the company, you'll have Claude as a collaborator — we expect the TPMs on this team to push hard on what AI-assisted program management can look like.

Key responsibilities

• Own the integrated silicon program plan — architecture closure, RTL freeze, DV milestones, IP delivery, PD closure, DFT, tapeout, and post-silicon bring-up.

• Drive external partner execution across ASIC design partners, IP vendors, foundry, and packaging/test.

• Run technology and IP selection as a program: track candidate vendors and options, drive evaluations to a decision, and land the build / buy / license calls with engineering leadership.

• Build the execution mechanisms a silicon team needs — milestone definitions, risk and dependency tracking, design reviews, release management, exec reporting — and keep them lightweight enough that engineers actually use them.

• Manage the interface between silicon and its consumers: hardware systems for package/board/bring-up, and inference/kernels/compiler teams for hardware-software co-design, so trade-offs land as coordinated decisions rather than late surprises.

• Own the post-silicon program — bring-up planning, ATE/test handoff, sample distribution, validation, and the path to production readiness.

• Develop and share AI-assisted approaches to program management — schedule and dependency modeling, spec and milestone consistency checking, partner-deliverable tracking, status synthesis.

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years in silicon/SoC program management, chip lead, or an equivalent role that owned a chip schedule end to end.

• Direct ownership of at least one program that taped out and reached production, with milestones you can speak to in detail — including where it slipped and what you did about it.

• Working technical fluency across the silicon lifecycle — front-end, DV, PD, DFT, foundry, packaging.

• Experience running external silicon partners — ASIC houses, IP vendors, foundry, or OSAT — including SOW scoping, delivery tracking, and escalation.

• Track record of building program mechanisms from scratch on an ambiguous, fast-moving effort.

• Strong written communication — plans, reviews, and exec updates that many teams depend on.

• Comfort operating with high autonomy and limited process on a highly dynamic program.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience on ML accelerators, high-performance compute, networking, or other large, high-bandwidth SoCs at advanced process nodes.

• Experience on a first-generation or early silicon program, including standing up flows, methodology, or vendor relationships from nothing.

• Experience with both partner-executed and fully in-house programs, and a view on the trade-offs between them.

• Prior hands-on engineering background in one or more silicon domains (design, DV, PD, DFT, or SI/PI).

• Familiarity with the chip-package-system interface and co-design with a hardware systems team.

• Experience with hardware-software co-design programs — working directly with compiler, kernel, or runtime teams.

• Practical experience using AI tools in your own workflow, and clear ideas about where they help and where they don't.

• BS/MS in EE, CE, CS, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$365,000—$435,000 USD

LogisticsMinimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.