Senior Technical Program Manager – Lpu Silicon

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the development of next-generation LPU (Language Processing Unit) silicon from concept to production. This role involves managing complex, cross-functional programs in hardware development, balancing PPA goals, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in semiconductor and hardware system development, ideally in AI domains, with a strong understanding of AI chip architectures and project management methodologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with engineers and engineering managers to ensure timely execution of silicon deliverables with quality
  2. Lead Programs: Drive and manage end-to-end projects involving the Silicon build, development, post Si validation, Systems bring up and performance testing
  3. Cross-Functional Coordination and Technical Mentorship: Collaborate with Silicon, Hardware Systems, Validation, Software Engineering, Product Management, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on technical specifications, project goals, and deliverables
  4. Technical Expertise: Draw upon your silicon engineering experience to provide deep technical mentorship on AI chip architectures, interconnects, memory hierarchies, and thermal management to optimize performance and efficiency in datacenter deployments
  5. Communications: Drive communication internal and external to the engineering teams including leadership reviews, Core team meetings, etc.

Skills

Required

  • Technical program management
  • Semiconductor development
  • Hardware System development
  • AI chip architectures
  • Logic build
  • Design verification
  • Physical development
  • ASIC development paradigms
  • COT silicon development paradigms
  • External vendor management
  • Semiconductor technologies
  • Hardware and software integration
  • Project & program management tools and methodologies (e.g., Linear, Waterfall, JIRA)

Nice to have

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of Technical program management in Semiconductor, Hardware System development, ideally in AI domains
  • Have hands-on experience with either logic build, design verification, or physical develop, including taping out at least one chip of significant complexity
  • Demonstrated ability to build, maintain, manage complex programs involving multiple technical teams using both ASIC and COT silicon development paradigms
  • Understanding of semiconductor technologies, methodologies to speak with engineers in their own language