IP Customer Program Manager - Santa Clara, California, United States
$100,000 - $500,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
Tenstorrent develops a high performance RISC-V CPU.
About the role
This role involves leading customer program management within the Product Group, focusing on aligning strategy and development of the customer journey with Tenstorrent's IP products. The position requires engagement with compute IP products, including Arm, RISC-V, x86, AI accelerator, subsystem, or GPU IPs.
What you'll do
- Coordinate and communicate daily between customers and IP Product and Engineering teams.
- Align product milestones, deliverables, and customer engagement plans with product strategy and the signed statement of work.
- Coordinate architects, design teams, software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver agreed actions.
- Establish and maintain program plans, goals, tracking processes, and customer service-level agreements.
- Lead program reviews, communicate status and risks to senior leaders, and drive corrective actions.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Five or more years of customer program management experience, supporting IP products or semiconductor technologies.
- Experience in CPU, SoC, or silicon development as an engineer, technical lead, or program manager.
- Ability to translate technical details into clear status, dependencies, trade-offs, and executive-ready updates.
- Understanding of the semiconductor and compute IP landscape.
Nice to have
- Experience with Arm, RISC-V, x86, AI accelerator, subsystem, or GPU IP.
- Familiarity with AI inference or training technologies.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, or Confluence.
Skills: customer program management, IP products, CPU, SoC, silicon development, AI accelerator, Jira
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 63-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
64
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Median days open
63 d
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Median salary
$245k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Tenstorrent | All employers we track in this specialty (64 roles · 17 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 64 |
| Median days open | 58 d | 63 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $245k |
Skills observed across this category: customer program management, IP products, CPU, SoC, silicon development, AI accelerator, Jira
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 18 open roles · median 87 d
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 68 d
- Micron Technology · 7 open roles · median 50 d
- Lam Research · 4 open roles · median 60 d
- Tenstorrent (this employer) · 4 open roles · median 58 d
How we counted: 64 open Technical Program Management (AI ML Hardware) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.