Senior Technical Program Manager - ASIC, Amazon Leo - San Diego, California, United States
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
Join the Amazon LEO team to help build ASIC/SOC solutions for satellite and ground equipment.
About the role
This role involves leading the development of ASIC/SOC solutions for satellites and ground equipment/terminals within the Amazon LEO initiative.
What you'll do
- Create project execution plans for ASIC/SOC development to meet power/performance and functional specifications. - Define ASIC bring-up readiness and test plans with cross-functional teams. - Ensure ASIC/SOC development adheres to schedule, cost, and quality requirements. - Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-off recommendations, and resolve blocking issues. - Collaborate with Architecture, hardware, software, firmware, packaging, and PCB teams on cross-functional deliverables. - Work with external IP, Fabs, OSAT silicon services, and partners for project execution.
What you'll need
- Experience in complex ASIC/SOC development, managing phases from architecture, front end design, pre-silicon verification, FPGA prototyping, Emulation, Physical design, BROM, FW, substrate and package design, Tapeout. - Experience in post-silicon phases such as silicon manufacturing, silicon bring-up, functional and system validation, embedded FW/SW, ATE, Reliability, Qual, and NPI. - Fully competent in project management tools, SOC/IP design methodologies and techniques for all project life-cycle phases. - Demonstrated proficiency in core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality and risk management, reporting and metric development/tracking. - Experience driving ASIC bring-up readiness (HW/SW) and ASIC bring-up plan. - Experience working through Silicon development design phases: architecture definition, RTL design, Verification, IP design, Physical design, silicon bring up, test, characterization, quality, reliability and post silicon management.
Skills: ASIC/SOC development, project execution plans, silicon bring up, RTL design, physical design
This role has been open 10 days — well below the 50-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
161
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$219k
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| Metric | Amazon | All employers we track in this specialty (161 roles · 47 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 161 |
| Median days open | 16 d | 50 d (−34 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $219k |
Skills observed across this category: ASIC/SOC development, project execution plans, silicon bring up, RTL design, physical design
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 50 d
- AMD · 17 open roles · median 36 d
- NVIDIA · 17 open roles · median 43 d
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- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 76 d
- Astera Labs · 5 open roles · median 107 d
How we counted: 161 open Technical Program Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.