Staff Module Engineering Program Manager - Mountain View, CA, United States
$132,400 - $179,200 USD yearly
Originally posted 19 November 2025 by the employer.
About the role
The Staff Module Engineering Program Manager leads technical development efforts, including the management of build and test activity and vendor relationships to deliver products on schedule. The role focuses on high-volume manufacturing process flows and silicon photonics module development.
What you'll do
- Work with photonics and packaging project teams to drive design, validation, process development, and production activities. - Oversee development of fixtures and testers to support design and manufacturing activities. - Drive closure on technical issues and development roadblocks to ensure projects meet top-level requirements and are delivered on time. - Develop and manage project schedules while communicating program risks and status regularly to key stakeholders. - Serve as the program interface for development activities with key suppliers.
What you'll need
- Experience leading photonics, semiconductor laser diode, or transceiver development projects from design to production. - Demonstrated experience with semiconductor development workflows specific to silicon photonics tapeouts, wafer test, and module development. - Familiarity with photonic and III-V fabrication processes and technologies. - Good understanding of photonics module packaging development, including active alignment, flip chip, and wire-bonding. - Good understanding of validation and production test flows from wafer to module. - Experience with organization of work across teams through scrum and agile frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience with automotive supply chain. - Experience with Atlassian tools (e.g. Confluence, JIRA) and Smartsheets to manage development efforts.
Skills: photonics development, semiconductor laser diode, silicon photonics tapeouts, wafer test, module packaging, validation and production test
This role has been open 191 days — well above the 52-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
1009
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$155k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Aeva Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (1009 roles · 102 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 1009 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 17 | 6250 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 80 d | 52 d (+28 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $155k |
Skills observed across this category: photonics development, semiconductor laser diode, silicon photonics tapeouts, wafer test, module packaging, validation and production test
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 73 open roles · median 37 d
- KLA Corporation · 63 open roles · median 51 d
- Teradyne · 59 open roles · median 37 d
- NVIDIA · 51 open roles · median 69 d
- Applied Materials · 47 open roles · median 65 d
- AMD · 43 open roles · median 54 d
How we counted: 1009 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 102 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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 — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.