SMTS Product Manager - Global Tapeout and Mask Organization - Austin, Texas, United States of America

Originally posted 19 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

As a Product Manager, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and business ownership of tapeout engineering capabilities that support product configuration, design-data validation, and manufacturing readiness. This role focuses on internal platforms including Global Product Validator (GPV) and Global Product Configurator (GPC) across customer design enablement, tapeout engineering, and semiconductor manufacturing.

What you'll do

- Own the product strategy, roadmap, and release priorities for product configuration and design-data verification capabilities, partnering with Product Lines, Sales, Manufacturing, Tapeout Engineering, and IT stakeholders. - Ensure integration of configuration and verification processes, maintaining a single source of truth from customer order definition through tapeout and manufacturing execution. - Translate business, technology, and manufacturing requirements into scalable product capabilities, automated rules, and user-centric workflows. - Enable new technology nodes, products, and manufacturing offerings by ensuring configuration options and verification methodologies are modeled and validated prior to customer deployment. - Create features for product enhancement, perform product functionality testing, and collaborate on training needs. - Track key performance indicators including configuration accuracy, verification coverage, escape prevention, respin risk reduction, tapeout cycle time, and user adoption.

What you'll need

- Bachelor's degree in engineering (Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field). - 12 years of experience in semiconductor operations, product management, data management, or a closely related field. - Experience owning software or data products end to end, from roadmap through release. - Working knowledge of semiconductor design data, DMs, PDKs, mask layers, and tapeout flows.

Nice to have

- Master's degree in electrical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, or a related field. - 13 years of experience in semiconductor operations / product & data management, tapeout flows, and technical aptitude in a manufacturing setting.

Skills: product strategy, roadmap, tapeout flows, design data verification, product configuration