Technical Program Manager, Silicon Engineering

Technical Program Manager, Silicon Engineering

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in technical program management in software or hardware development/integration.
• 8 years of experience in product engineering, leading mobile and compute chip development, first silicon bring-up, and high-volume production enablement.
• Experience with 2 chip cycles in a technical project management role, including end to end execution with resource and schedule constraints.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering.
• Experience with data center and cloud markets, technological and business trends, requirements, and ecosystem partners.
• Experience as an engineer or manager in developing hardware or software systems around the chips.
• Ability to motivate and focus a large collaboration to reach challenging goals.

Responsibilities

• Justify, plan, coordinate, and deliver custom silicon products. Assess complexity and scope out the project, generate task lists, build an efficient and effective project timeline, and work with the teams to make it reality.
• Lead the creation of credible and data-driven schedules and milestones, track the progress, proactively identify potential future challenges, and identify mitigations with the various team leaders.
• Drive technical, budgetary, and schedule tradeoff discussions with cross-functional teams, balancing what’s needed with what’s possible.
• Manage project execution and issues as they arise through design, development, test, manufacturing, deployment, and sustaining activities for silicon and hardware products.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

Behind all of Google’s user-facing apps, sites, and services are data centers full of hardware and software developed by the Technical Infrastructure team. As a Technical Program Manager for Silicon Development, you will lead the development and execution of complex, multidisciplinary SoC projects. You will plan programs and manage their execution from early concept through development to tapeout and production. You will collaborate closely with architecture, design, verification, physical implementation, and manufacturing teams throughout the SoC execution lifecycle. This includes making technical decisions for the chip designs and methodology, driving project schedules, identifying risks and communicating them to all stakeholders, and managing partner teams.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.