Director, Technical Program Manager - San Jose, California, United States
$260,000 - $351,800 USD yearly
Originally posted 19 October 2026 by the employer.
Arm AGI family
About the role
Arm is hiring an experienced end-to-end Director, Technical Program Manager to join our Cloud AI Business unit and ensure the delivery of a complete SoC program from pre-silicon through commercialization. This role oversees the program execution for an upcoming SoC within the Arm AGI family.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end program execution for an upcoming SoC in the Arm AGI family, driving accountability across hardware, software, systems, and product teams. - Establish and maintain the integrated program plan, tracking critical dependencies, resourcing assumptions, and delivery risks. - Drive cross-functional decisions regarding delivery approach, sequencing, resourcing, risk acceptance, and recovery actions. - Provide fact-based reporting to senior business leaders on program status, trade-offs, and critical decisions. - Ensure product readiness across silicon, firmware, software, validation, platform enablement, documentation, and customer readiness. - Improve development practices by capturing lessons learned, strengthening execution, and addressing structural barriers to delivery.
What you'll need
- Significant experience leading complex, end-to-end silicon or systems programs through to customer deployment. - A track record of delivering large, multi-year programs involving diverse disciplinary teams across organizations. - Deep understanding of semiconductor development lifecycles, including design, verification, validation, manufacturing readiness, software enablement, and product qualification at data centers. - Experience building and developing program teams, coaching senior program leaders, and establishing execution standards. - Demonstrated ability to identify delivery risks early and drive crucial action and recovery plans. - Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical subject area, or equivalent experience.
Skills: program execution, SoC, silicon development lifecycle, validation, hardware software dependencies
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 54-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
176
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$220k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Arm Holdings | All employers we track in this specialty (176 roles · 48 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 176 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 54 d (−54 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: program execution, SoC, silicon development lifecycle, validation, hardware software dependencies
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 23 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 21 open roles · median 32 d
- NVIDIA · 21 open roles · median 43 d
- Synopsys · 15 open roles · median 47 d
- Arm Holdings (this employer) · 10 open roles · median 94 d
- GlobalFoundries · 7 open roles · median 14 d
How we counted: 176 open Technical Program Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 48 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.