Technical Program Manager, Silicon Physical Design

MatX; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 475,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks PTO (accrued) + holidays

Remote work up to 3 weeks

Company-covered medical/dental/vision

Life insurance and disability

Professional development budget

Commuter reimbursement

AI resources support

Parental leave

Job summary

MatX is hiring a Technical Program Manager for its silicon team in Mountain View. You will own the cross-functional execution framework for advanced SoC programs from planning through tapeout, driving milestones, dependencies, reviews, risk management, and tapeout readiness across multiple engineering groups.

You will develop playbooks, lead end-to-end execution of SoC development, resolve pre-silicon issues, and support tradeoffs in performance, power, area, and cost.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical program management experience across SoC programs and silicon lifecycles.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams with multiple engineering groups, vendors, and aggressive schedules.
• Proficiency in planning, dependency tracking, risk management, and milestone governance.
• Experience with pre-silicon flows including RTL, DV sign-off, synthesis, physical design, tapeout.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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, IP readiness, verification closure, signoff, and supply chain.
• Prepare executive-level updates covering milestone health, risks, decisions, and resource gaps.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Technical judgment

Communication skills

Jira

GitHub

Confluence

Smartsheet

MS Project

Google Workspace

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Confluence

Smartsheet

MS Project

Google Workspace

Job description

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.

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.

MatX is seeking a Technical Program Manager to join our silicon team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. Successful candidates for this role will be responsible for delivering performant and functionally accurate silicon for MatX products across compute, memory management, High-speed connectivity and other key technologies.

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. schedule risks, owners, closure dates, and escalation paths.
• Drive gate reviews and weekly program syncs 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.
• Prior hands-on engineering experience in BE PD.

Compensation

The US base salary for this full-time position is determined based on a variety of factors including role, experience, location, job related skills, and relevant education and training. Career length is only a guideline for compensation.

• Early Career - $120,000 - $250,000 + equity
• Mid Career - $175,000 - $362,500 + equity
• Senior Career - $250,000 - $475,000 + equity

What We Offer

• Time off: 4 weeks PTO (accrued) + 12 company Holidays + up to 3 weeks remote work
• Health: Company-subsidized Medical (Kaiser or Anthem) for employees & dependents, Guardian Dental and Vision insurances for employee & dependents, and life insurance (employee only), plus HSA and FSA offerings via Lively. See attached benefits 1-pager and full benefits guide for more info on benefits.
• Financial Wellbeing: Choose from Roth IRA/ 401K (or both) retirement plans with up to 5% company contribution to 401K (even if you don\'t contribute). Also, 100% company-paid life insurance (up to $300K) and long-term disability insurances.
• Professional Development: $1500 Professional Development Budget (per year)
• Team Meals: MatX provides onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday, with your choice of ordering via WeBox, Specialty’s or via our reimbursement system
• Commute on Us: Commute on our company Uber account, or reimburse your train rides. Either way, we pay 100% for your daily commute.
• MatX E[x]tras: $50/mo to use on the perk you value most
• Cell & Internet Reimbursement: $35/mo for cellular and $40/mo for wifi
• Mental Wellbeing: 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP.
• Support to Parents: Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood, 10 weeks pregnancy disability leave, flexible return-to-work hours, and Benepass reproductive health & parental benefit.
• AI Resources: Up to $20K/month plus a dedicated internal AI Tooling Team to support your productivity

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.

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.

MatX does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or People team and any resumes submitted are deemed to be the property of MatX.