Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BrainChip is seeking a Contract Program Manager, Hardware Development to lead cross-functional technical programs spanning silicon, hardware, firmware, software, system integration, and product delivery. The role is responsible for coordinating development schedules and dependencies, managing risks, facilitating technical decisions, and supporting ASIC and SoC development through validation and production release.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex technical programs across silicon, hardware, firmware, software, validation, and operations
- Develop integrated schedules connecting hardware-development and software-readiness milestones
- Coordinate dependencies across architecture, engineering, system integration, testing, and product teams
- Identify program risks, clarify ownership, and drive teams toward resolution plans
- Facilitate cross-functional reviews, milestone meetings, and leadership updates
- Track decisions, technical dependencies, deliverables, and critical-path activities
- Support ASIC and SoC development, tapeout planning, and silicon-readiness activities
- Coordinate firmware, drivers, development tools, boards, and pre-silicon platforms
- Support hardware bring-up, system integration, validation, qualification, and production release
- Work with engineering leaders to evaluate priorities, resources, schedules, and technical tradeoffs
- Establish practical program dashboards, operating rhythms, and communication processes
- Improve collaboration across engineering teams in multiple locations
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
- • Five or more years of technical program, engineering program, project, or product-development management experience
- • Experience managing complex hardware, embedded, semiconductor, or hardware-software development programs
- • Ability to understand technical dependencies across multiple engineering disciplines
- • Experience building schedules, managing risks, and coordinating major development milestones
- • Strong organization, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
- • Ability to influence technical teams without relying solely on formal authority
- • Experience communicating with engineers, functional leaders, executives, and external partners
- • Experience with Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, Confluence, or similar tools
- • Direct ASIC tapeout experience is valuable, but we will also consider candidates who have led sophisticated hardware-development programs involving embedded systems, processors, automotive electronics, robotics, aerospace, consumer devices, or advanced computing platforms
- • Experience with ASIC, SoC, FPGA, semiconductor, processor, or embedded-system development
- • Exposure to tapeout, silicon bring-up, post-silicon validation, or production release
- • Experience coordinating firmware, drivers, SDKs, embedded software, or hardware-validation activities
- • Experience with AI hardware, automotive systems, robotics, aerospace, networking, or consumer electronics
- • Previous engineering or technical product-development experience
- • Familiarity with foundries, packaging, boards, test, manufacturing, or external development partners
- • Experience working across geographically distributed engineering teams
- • PMP, PgMP, Scrum, or another relevant program-management certification
Benefits
- Work Remote Yes
- Work Hybrid Yes
- Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates
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