Technical Software Program Manager
$195,000 - $292,000 USD yearly
About the role
This role leads the planning and delivery of software capabilities supporting a physical AI program across software, hardware, systems engineering, product, operations, security, quality, suppliers, and external partners.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end execution of software programs supporting physical AI products and systems.
- Translate program goals and product requirements into integrated plans, milestones, schedules, and roadmaps.
- Coordinate work across software, hardware, firmware, systems engineering, product, operations, security, quality, suppliers, and external partners.
- Manage requirements, traceability, dependencies, and change control using tools such as Jama Connect, Jira, and Confluence.
- Build dashboards and automated reporting for milestone progress, scope changes, schedule confidence, quality trends, dependencies, risks, and issues.
- Use automation and data integrations across Jama, Jira, spreadsheets, and APIs to streamline roadmaps, reports, and program metrics.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in technical program management, software development, systems engineering, product development, or a similar technical environment.
- Demonstrated success managing complex software programs across multiple engineering teams, stakeholders, suppliers, or partners.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, delivery methodologies, and release processes.
- Proficiency with Jira, Jama Connect, Confluence, or similar requirements and work-management platforms.
- Working knowledge of automation tools and data integrations across Jira, Jama, spreadsheets, APIs, or similar sources.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, AI/ML, embedded software, or other physical products.
- Experience coordinating software delivery with hardware, firmware, systems integration, manufacturing, or operations teams.
- Experience with requirements decomposition, traceability, verification, and validation.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, software quality practices, or release management.
- Experience working with external suppliers, technology partners, or geographically distributed teams.
- Experience presenting program status and recommendations to senior leadership.
Skills: program management, software delivery, Jira, roadmap, traceability
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This role has been open 13 days — well below the 44-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
45
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Median days open
44 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$200k
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| Metric | Ampere Computing | All employers we track in this specialty (45 roles · 14 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 45 |
| Median days open | 13 d | 44 d (−31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $200k |
Skills observed across this category: program management, software delivery, Jira, roadmap, traceability
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 65 d
- Lam Research · 6 open roles · median 53 d
- Qualcomm · 6 open roles · median 47 d
- AMD · 5 open roles · median 15 d
- Arm Holdings · 3 open roles · median 11 d
- Broadcom · 3 open roles · median 109 d
How we counted: 45 open Technical Program Management (Systems Software) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 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.