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# Technical Program Manager, Hardware

- **Company:** Density AI, Inc.
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $320,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Confluence, JIRA, C++ (Programming Language), Device Drivers, Firmware, Linux Kernel, Software Tools, System Programming, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Physical Design
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5832946867

## About the Role

* 5+ years of technical program/project management in hardware, silicon, or deeply technical software, driving complex cross-functional programs to delivery
 * Strong technical fluency - you can hold your own with chip-design and software engineers and understand the dependencies between RTL/PD/DV/packaging and compiler/runtime/bring-up
 * Systems-programming background: hands-on C/C++ (and/or Rust), Linux internals, firmware, device drivers, or bring-up software - enough to read the code, dig into low-level issues, and earn engineers' trust
 * Demonstrated ownership of schedule, critical path, and risk on a large multi-team program, ideally through a silicon tapeout or a comparable hardware milestone.
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management, from IC engineers to executives
 * Comfort operating in ambiguity at startup pace; bias to action; lightweight, high-trust process
 * (Optional) Silicon program experience through tapeout/bring-up; ASIC/SoC development lifecycle; hardware/software co-development; Jira/Confluence; PMP or Agile; AI/ML or accelerator domain

## Description

Drive the cross-functional execution of our AI accelerator hardware program - owning the schedules, dependencies, and risk across silicon, board/system hardware, and the low-level software that brings it to life, from architecture through tapeout, bring-up, and scale-out. [+] You're technical enough to go a level deeper than a typical PM: comfortable in the systems-programming layer (firmware, drivers, bring-up software) where hardware and software meet, not just tracking it from the outside.
What you'll do

 * Own end-to-end program management for major hardware workstreams - schedule, dependencies, critical path, and risk from architecture through tapeout and silicon bring-up
 * Drive cross-functional execution across silicon (design, DV, physical design, packaging), board/system hardware, and software teams; align milestones and clear dependencies
 * Bridge hardware and the systems-software stack, coordinate (and where useful, hands-on contribute to) firmware, device drivers, and bring-up software that exercises new silicon and boards
 * Run the program operating cadence. Planning, milestone tracking, status, risk reviews, and crisp executive communication
 * Identify critical-path risks and drive them to resolution before they slip the schedule; own tapeout readiness and milestone gating
 * Translate low-level technical blockers (bring-up failures, driver/firmware issues, HW/SW integration bugs) into program decisions, and help the team triage them rather than waiting on a single owner
 * Build lightweight tracking and process that scales with the team without slowing engineers down


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