Hiring: ASIC Technical Program Manager Company: Etched Location: San Jose, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:19:14 Target Skills & Keywords : ASIC, EDA, Program Management, Vendor Management About the job Experience: •5+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, or a closely related role within the semiconductor or hardware space. Required Skills: •Vendor Management: Engage directly with external vendors, including EDA partners and implementation partners. Hold vendors accountable to timelines and deliverables. Be prepared to push back, defend Etched’s technical requirements, and escalate when needed. •Risk Identification and Mitigation: Proactively surface critical path risks, schedule slippage, and cross-team blockers. Develop mitigation strategies in partnership with engineering leads and escalate appropriately to technical and executive stakeholders. •Project Planning and Execution: Manage the scheduling and execution of complex, multi-team hardware programs. Keep projects on track across tape-out milestones, synthesis respins, and signoff cycles. •Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular, clear updates to engineering leads, VP-level stakeholders, and executive leadership on project status, risks, and decisions required. Set the tone for meetings, facilitate alignment, mediate technical disagreements, and drive to decisions. •Process Coordination: Work with ops and engineering teams to maintain accurate tracking of program state, action owners, and open items. Support the adoption of tooling and dashboards that improve engineering visibility - though dashboard creation itself sits with the ops team. •Technical Acumen: Bring enough ASIC domain knowledge to communicate credibly with engineers across the design stack and with external partners. You don’t need to be a designer, but you need to know the difference between a .3 and .5 RTL release, understand where DFT fits in the flow, and have a feel for what a synthesis restart actually involves. •You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications) •At least one full ASIC tape-out under your belt. You should be able to speak fluently to what that process looks like end-to-end. Compensation: •Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!