Technical Product Manager - CPU Hardware Program - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$168,000 - $327,750 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 October 2026 by the employer.
Develop CPU silicon and platforms for AI and data center infrastructure.
About the role
This role leads complex CPU silicon and platform projects within the Data Center CPU Product Management team.
What you'll do
- Drive coordinated progress across CPU silicon and platform programs, maintaining a clear view of achievements, dependencies, risks, decisions, owners, and readiness criteria. - Collaborate with architecture, silicon, platform, firmware, validation, performance, operations, and product teams to recognize cross-functional dependencies and advance essential steps to completion. - Identify schedule, scope, quality, and readiness risks early, outlining technical trade-offs and bringing the right collaborators together to make timely decisions. - Translate complex engineering inputs into concise, technically accurate program plans, requirements, decision records, risk assessments, and executive updates. - Coordinate responses to hardware and platform questions from customers, partners, sales, and executives while ensuring commitments align with product requirements, technical evidence, and program capacity.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience in technical program management, systems engineering, or hardware program management leading complex hardware and software products. - BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related area, or equivalent experience. - Working knowledge of server or silicon development, including dependencies across CPU, memory, I/O, firmware, board, system, validation, and manufacturing. - Proven experience building and driving coordinated technical programs across architecture, engineering, validation, operations, product, and customer-facing teams. - Ability to grasp complex gaps in evidence, dependencies, assumptions, and implementation plans. - Strong technical and executive communication skills, including experience developing requirements, decision documents, risk assessments, program updates, and customer-facing responses.
Skills: CPU silicon, platform programs, hardware program management, server development, firmware, validation
This role has been open 0 days — well below 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
$219k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (175 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 20 | 175 |
| Median days open | 33 d | 46 d (−13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $219k |
Skills observed across this category: CPU silicon, platform programs, hardware program management, server development, firmware, validation
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 26 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 20 open roles · median 29 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 18 open roles · median 41 d
- Synopsys · 14 open roles · median 45 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 82 d
- Apple · 7 open roles · median 66 d
How we counted: 175 open Technical Program Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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.