Technical Software Program Manager

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 is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute.

As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.

Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team-we’dlove to have you apply!

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated, self-directed Technical Program Manager to lead the planning and delivery of software capabilities supporting a physical AI program. This role coordinates complex, cross-functional initiatives across software, hardware, systems engineering, product, operations, security, quality, suppliers, and external partners.

The ideal candidate enjoys creating structure from ambiguity and operating at the intersection of advanced technology, physical products, and execution. This role will establish the operating rhythm, processes, and visibility needed to deliver high-quality software predictably while managing dependencies across the product ecosystem.

What You’ll Achieve:

• 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.

About You:

• 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.
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, evolving, and ambiguous environment.
• Working knowledge of automation tools and data integrations across Jira, Jama, spreadsheets, APIs, or similar sources.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, AI/ML, embedded software, or other physical products.]
• Experience coordinating software delivery with hardware, firmware, systems integration, manufacturing, or operations teams.
• Experience with requirements decomposition, traceability, verification, and validation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, software quality practices, or release management.
• Experience working with external suppliers, technology partners, or geographically distributed teams.
• Experience presenting program status and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Highly self-driven, organized, pragmatic, collaborative, and persistent in driving follow-through.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated, self-directed Technical Program Manager to lead the planning and delivery of software capabilities supporting a physical AI program. This role coordinates complex, cross-functional initiatives across software, hardware, systems engineering, product, operations, security, quality, suppliers, and external partners.

The ideal candidate enjoys creating structure from ambiguity and operating at the intersection of advanced technology, physical products, and execution. This role will establish the operating rhythm, processes, and visibility needed to deliver high-quality software predictably while managing dependencies across the product ecosystem.

What You’ll Achieve:

• 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.

About You:

• 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.
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, evolving, and ambiguous environment.
• Working knowledge of automation tools and data integrations across Jira, Jama, spreadsheets, APIs, or similar sources.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, AI/ML, embedded software, or other physical products.]
• Experience coordinating software delivery with hardware, firmware, systems integration, manufacturing, or operations teams.
• Experience with requirements decomposition, traceability, verification, and validation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, software quality practices, or release management.
• Experience working with external suppliers, technology partners, or geographically distributed teams.
• Experience presenting program status and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Highly self-driven, organized, pragmatic, collaborative, and persistent in driving follow-through.

What We’ll Offer:

At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $182,000 and $273,000, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $195,000 and $292,000.

Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life.

Benefit highlights include:

• Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401K retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health and financial future.
• Unlimited Flextime and 10+ paid holidays so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance.
• A variety of healthy snacks, energizing espresso, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.

And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process. Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life.

Description

Invent the future with us. Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute. As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications. Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team-we’dlove to have you apply!

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated, self-directed Technical Program Manager to lead the planning and delivery of software capabilities supporting a physical AI program. This role coordinates complex, cross-functional initiatives across software, hardware, systems engineering, product, operations, security, quality, suppliers, and external partners.

The ideal candidate enjoys creating structure from ambiguity and operating at the intersection of advanced technology, physical products, and execution. This role will establish the operating rhythm, processes, and visibility needed to deliver high-quality software predictably while managing dependencies across the product ecosystem.

What You’ll Achieve:

• 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.

About You:

• 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.
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, evolving, and ambiguous environment.
• Working knowledge of automation tools and data integrations across Jira, Jama, spreadsheets, APIs, or similar sources.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, AI/ML, embedded software, or other physical products.]
• Experience coordinating software delivery with hardware, firmware, systems integration, manufacturing, or operations teams.
• Experience with requirements decomposition, traceability, verification, and validation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, software quality practices, or release management.
• Experience working with external suppliers, technology partners, or geographically distributed teams.
• Experience presenting program status and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Highly self-driven, organized, pragmatic, collaborative, and persistent in driving follow-through.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.