Sr. Customer Program Manager - Shanghai-Design Ctr B2, China
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
About the role
What you'll do
- Define, plan, and drive projects and program plans based on management and senior technical guidance.
- Scope technical feasibility of new projects by clarifying and analyzing requirements with SW/HW Architects, Technical Leads, and Engineers.
- Develop program schedules by considering various Driver, SW Stack components and HW/FW dependencies, and create staffing plans.
- Establish formal program management artifacts including a plan of record, statements of work, project/program timelines, budget, scope, performance, and quality KPIs.
- Plan for risks in the development path, identify prevention methods, and address them.
- Address the needs and requirements from AMD's Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Engineering organizations.
What you'll need
- Solid knowledge of technical program management.
- Outstanding track record of delivering sophisticated software/hardware programs.
- Strong customer engagement skills.
- Technical understanding of SoC architectures, CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, AI accelerators, embedded platforms, and software enablement processes.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, AI, Robotics, or a related technical discipline.
- Formal Project Management education or PMP certification.
Nice to have
- Experience managing complex customer programs in Robotics, Industrial Automation, Embedded AI, Automotive, or related technology industries.
- Proven track record leading customer engagements involving hardware, software, AI, and system integration projects from concept through production deployment.
- Strong understanding of robotics software ecosystems including ROS/ROS2, AI/ML/VLA frameworks, perception systems, simulation environments, motion control, and edge computing architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to drive multiple strategic customer projects simultaneously.
- Experience managing executive stakeholder relationships and influencing decision-making.
- Experience leading customer escalations, issue resolution teams, root-cause investigations, and cross-functional recovery plans.
- Proven ability to leverage AI-driven automation and project management tools.
Skills: customer program manager, strategic customer engagements, SoCs, software frameworks, risk management, Robotics
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 43-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
144
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Median days open
43 d
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Median salary
$228k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (144 roles · 43 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 22 | 144 |
| Median days open | 38 d | 43 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $228k |
Skills observed across this category: customer program manager, strategic customer engagements, SoCs, software frameworks, risk management, Robotics
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 23 open roles · median 35 d
- AMD (this employer) · 21 open roles · median 47 d
- NVIDIA · 13 open roles · median 42 d
- Synopsys · 12 open roles · median 50 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 58 d
- Apple · 4 open roles · median 56 d
How we counted: 144 open Technical Program Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 43 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Sept 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.