SoC Pre-Silicon Engineering Program Manager - Austin, United States
Originally posted 11 August 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 15 August 2026.
This role focuses on the initial phases of architecture, specifications, design, and pre-silicon prototyping to initial samples.
About the role
This individual contributor role drives front-end silicon program schedules and resolves technical issues to enable on-time silicon. The focus of this role is on the initial phases of architecture, specifications, design, and pre-silicon prototyping to initial samples.
What you'll do
- Orchestrate technical issue resolution to enable on-time silicon to meet product schedules.
- Drive internal program processes to guarantee high-quality silicon definition and design execution.
- Interface and drive silicon issues within multi-functional teams: Design, Verification, Validation, Technology, System Hardware, and Core Software.
- Focus design teams on meeting near-term achievements and unblocking technical issues.
- Coordinate and manage with other organizations (Systems, SW, Ops).
- Report focused issues, track bugs, and communicate program risks & status.
What you'll need
- BS with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in SoC/VLSI Chip Design, ASIC Chip Design, or Technology process development.
- Experience working in a multifaceted engineering environment, strong at multi-tasking, and real-time crisis management.
Nice to have
- Technical Program or Project Management or Functional Management experience.
- Expertise owning and driving project development using well-defined metrics.
- Experience working with ASIC & VLSI design flows and leading silicon projects from concept to production.
- Programming language experience (Javascript, Python, Perl).
- Familiarity with project management tools (Confluence, JIRA).
Skills: silicon program schedules, technical issue resolution, SoC/VLSI Chip Design, multi-functional teams, project development
This role has been open 67 days — well above the 46-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
46 d
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Median salary
$220k
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| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (175 roles · 49 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 175 |
| Median days open | 67 d | 46 d (+21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: silicon program schedules, technical issue resolution, SoC/VLSI Chip Design, multi-functional teams, project development
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 46 d
- NVIDIA · 20 open roles · median 34 d
- AMD · 19 open roles · median 25 d
- Synopsys · 14 open roles · median 46 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 83 d
- Astera Labs · 6 open roles · median 67 d
How we counted: 175 open Technical Program Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 49 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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.