Technical Program Manager, Silicon Physical Design

MatX; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity / stock options

Health insurance

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

Professional development stipend

Team events

401K / Roth IRA

Remote work flexibility

Commute reimbursement

Remote setup support

Job summary

MatX is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own the cross-functional execution framework for advanced SoC programs from planning through tapeout. You will drive milestones, dependencies, reviews, risk management, and tapeout readiness across multiple engineering teams in Mountain View, CA.

You will lead end-to-end execution of SoC development programs, manage pre-silicon flows, and maintain trackers and dashboards for governance. Strong collaboration and communication are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of program management in silicon/SoC contexts.

Responsibilities

• Develop playbooks and best practices for program management across PD for cross-functional deliveries.
• Lead end-to-end execution of SoC development programs from concept through production.
• Drive issue resolution during pre-silicon execution, tapeout, bring-up, qualification, and yield learning.
• Build and maintain program trackers, risk registers, and executive dashboards for each engagement.
• Track dependencies, schedule risks, owners, milestones, and tapeout readiness.
• Drive gate reviews and weekly program syncs with PD and validation teams.
• Prepare executive-level updates on milestone health and resource gaps.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Milestone tracking

Risk management

Executive communication

Dependency management

Pre-silicon / tapeout experience

Schedule governance

Engineering collaboration tools

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Confluence

Smartsheet

MS Project

Google Workspace

Job description

Technical Program Manager - Silicon Physical Design

Mountain View, CA

What MatX Is Building

MatX is on a mission to be the compute platform for Artificial General Intelligence. We are developing vertically integrated full-stack solutions from silicon to systems including hardware and software to train and run the largest Machine Learning workloads for Artificial General Intelligence.

About the Role

You will own the cross-functional execution framework for advanced SoC programs from early planning through tapeout. You will drive milestones, dependencies, execution reviews, decision-making forums, risk management, and tapeout readiness across multiple engineering teams.

What You'll Do Here

• Develop playbooks and best practices for program management across the PD organization for cross-functional deliveries.
• Lead end-to-end execution of SoC development programs from concept through production.
• Drive issue resolution during pre-silicon execution, tapeout, bring-up, debug, qualification, and yield learning ensuring physical design readiness.
• Support silicon planning across performance, power, area, cost, reliability, and manufacturability tradeoffs.
• Build and maintain program trackers, risk registers, and executive dashboards covering each engagement.
• Track technical dependencies, schedule risks, owners, closure dates, critical path, program milestones, tapeout readiness, and silicon bring-up deliverables.
• Drive gate reviews and weekly program syncs with physical design, and validation teams.
• Manage technical risks related to schedule, design maturity, Intellectual Property readiness, verification closure, physical signoff, package/test readiness, and supply chain.
• Prepare executive-level updates covering milestone health, top risks, decisions needed, critical path, and resource gaps.

Who you are

• 10+ years of technical program management, silicon engineering program management or leading SoC programs through multiple phases of the silicon lifecycle.
• Experience driving complex cross-functional programs with multiple engineering teams, technical dependencies, external vendors, and aggressive schedules.
• Experience with program planning, dependency management, milestone tracking, and technical risk management.
• Experience managing pre-silicon Application Specific Integrated Circuit development flows, including architecture planning, RTL design, functional verification, synthesis, DFT, physical design, timing closure, signoff, and tapeout.
• Experience with pre-silicon validation platforms such as simulation, emulation, Field-Programmable Gate Array prototyping, or hardware/software co-validation.
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to manage trade-offs across performance, power, area, cost, schedule, quality, and risk.
• Technical fluency in SoC or chiplet design flows - enough to understand RTL milestones, DV sign-off, PD handoffs, and silicon bring-up phases without needing translation.
• Ability to drive schedules, dependency management, issue tracking, risk management, milestone governance, and executive-level communication.
• Experience coordinating design reviews and driving closure across cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize technical risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and schedule impact.
• Proficiency with program-management and engineering collaboration tools such as Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project, Google Workspace, or equivalent.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with AI infrastructure, datacenter racks, networking systems, storage systems, or high-power server platforms.
• Experience coordinating programs involving high-speed interconnects, liquid-cooled systems, telemetry, diagnostics, or rack-scale validation.

Compensation

• Early Career - $120,000 - $275,000 + equity

What We Offer

• A Stake in our successA cash/equity mix that fits your needs and option to do early exercise.
• Health & WellnessCompany subsidized Health, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance; Pre-tax Health Savings Accounts with generous company contribution (even if you don’t).
• Time To Recharge4 weeks paid time off (accrued), 12 company holidays, and 3 weeks remote/flexible work per year.
• Support to ParentsUp to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of your path to parenthood.
• Learning & Development$1,500 yearly towards your professional development e.g. conferences, courses, and other learning opportunities.
• Team ConnectionTeam Lunches, quarterly off-sites, and regular town halls.
• Financial Wellbeing401K and/or Roth IRA, with 5% company contribution, even if you don’t!
• Flexible Spending AccountsPre-tax spend accounts for medical, dental/vision, dependent care, parking, and transit expenses.
• Commute On UsFor those commuting up to 1 hour, put your rideshare cost on our company card and reclaim the drive-time to get work done!
• MatX E[x]tras$50 per month to use on the perks you care about most.
• Remote PerksWe work remotely Monday & Friday, supported by home-tech setup, and remote wifi expense reimbursement.

All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States and work from our offices in Mountain View Tuesdays-Thursdays.

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicants capacity to perform job functions in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our team and our focus on creating an inviting and inclusive work experience, MatX is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.