Senior Technical Program Manager (Silicon) - San Jose, United States
Originally posted 7 May 2026 by the employer.
Drive silicon tapeouts, advanced packaging, bring-up, and validation for Lumilens' photonic engines.
About the role
This role involves owning and driving complex silicon tapeouts, advanced packaging, bring-up, validation, and system-level integration programs. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality silicon, packaged solutions, and validated systems for the company's photonic engines.
What you'll do
- Organize end-to-end planning, scheduling, and execution for silicon and package tapeouts, advanced packaging, bring-up, validation, and systems development programs. - Partner with engineering leads and cross-functional teams to estimate, prioritize, and sequence work. - Create, maintain, and execute detailed project plans covering scope, schedule, budget, and resources. - Proactively manage schedules, risks, issues, and quality, escalating effectively and providing visibility to leadership. - Facilitate productive recurring meetings, technical reviews, and operational checkpoints. - Deliver concise communications to management and stakeholders on project status, key milestones, risks, and decisions.
What you'll need
- 10+ years of experience in Silicon design, tapeout, bring-up, validation, and product qualification. - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. - Solid understanding of the silicon tapeout process (verification, signoff, mask ordering). - Experience with product bring-up, silicon validation, and qualification flows. - Prior background in semiconductors (chip design, physical design, or test engineering preferred). - Proficiency with program management tools such as MS Project, Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Strong knowledge of photonic structures, optical communication, silicon photonics, laser solutions, and heterogeneous integration. - Experience with advanced packaging technologies (2.5D/3D integration, chiplets, silicon photonics packaging). - Experience building program management frameworks and processes from the ground up.
Skills: silicon tapeouts, advanced packaging, bring-up, validation, product qualification
This role has been open 73 days — well above the 47-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
175
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Median days open
47 d
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Median salary
$220k
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| Metric | Lumilens | All employers we track in this specialty (175 roles · 49 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 175 |
| Median days open | 73 d | 47 d (+26 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: silicon tapeouts, advanced packaging, bring-up, validation, product qualification
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 47 d
- NVIDIA · 20 open roles · median 35 d
- AMD · 19 open roles · median 26 d
- Synopsys · 14 open roles · median 47 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 84 d
- Astera Labs · 6 open roles · median 68 d
How we counted: 175 open Technical Program Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 49 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.