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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Technical Program Manager - **Company:** Neurophos Inc. - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Agile Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Emulators, Firmware, Scrum Methodology, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Hardware Acceleration - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-tpm-software-neurophos-9018447 ## About the Role * 8+ years of professional experience in technical program management. * Program management experience at a semiconductor, systems, or hardware company where software ships alongside physical product. * Familiarity with compiler, runtime, or firmware development programs. Experience with cloud software development/deployment is a plus. * Demonstrated experience deploying SCRUM in a hybrid scrum-fall environment, where agile software delivery must align with waterfall hardware or program milestones. * Proven track record running agile ceremonies and generating forward-looking forecasts of completion and risk. * Hands-on proficiency with modern engineering planning and tracking tools (Jira, Linear, or equivalent), including configuring workflows and building reporting that engineers trust and actually use. * Ability to engage credibly with engineers on technical details and to translate that detail into program-level decisions. * Proven ability to absorb complex architectures and designs quickly. Able to establish domain-specific understanding in a design review across unfamiliar technical areas. * Bachelor's degree in an engineering or scientific discipline. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering preferred. Preferred Skills * Experience managing programs through tape-out, bring-up, or comparable hard-date engineering milestones. * Experience leveraging AI to manage very large and complex programs, including planning, dependency analysis, forecasting, and risk surfacing at a scale that defeats manual tracking. * Master's degree in an engineering or scientific discipline, or an MBA. * Formal certification or training in Scrum, SAFe, or an equivalent framework. * Familiarity with LLM architectures and their computational requirements. ## Description We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to own execution across our software organization. At Neurophos, software leads hardware. Firmware, compilers, runtime, and tooling must be ready before the silicon and optics they target arrive, built against virtual platforms, simulators, and emulation. That is how we de-risk every hardware milestone. This job is about protecting and extending that lead. The more lead software builds, the more room the program has to run on an agile cadence. You will run the ceremonies that keep teams moving sprint to sprint and produce the forward-looking forecasts that chief engineers and executive management plan against. You will make the case, with data, for shifting the hybrid further toward an agile model. TPMs here are not scorekeepers. You will own real programs, surface risks, drive them to closure, and see your judgment reflected directly in product decisions., Program Execution * Operate SCRUM inside a hybrid scrum-fall program structure, keeping software delivery ahead of hardware availability rather than gated by it. * Build and maintain forward-looking completion forecasts with explicit confidence levels and stated assumptions, rather than status snapshots of work already done. * Run agile ceremonies for software teams and keep them useful rather than ritualistic. * Track and report how far ahead software is running relative to hardware, and treat any erosion of that lead as a first-order program risk. * Identify, quantify, and escalate schedule and technical risk early, and drive it to resolution with named owners and dates. * Maintain program-level planning artifacts and reporting that engineers trust and leadership can act on. Cross-Functional Coordination * Manage cross-team dependencies across software, hardware, and cloud, and make the critical path visible to everyone on it. * Work directly with chief engineers and executive management to ensure commitments are grounded in what teams can actually deliver. * Drive scope and sequencing decisions when hardware milestones shift, and clearly communicate the downstream impact. * Advocate for shifting the hybrid further toward agile wherever software's lead makes it possible, and build the evidence that makes the case. ## Related Videos - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100140-playing-pong-on-a-shoulder-press-machine) - [Thinking Differently - How to Make Money from Cyber Attacks & Cheats](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/745-thinking-differently-how-to-make-money-from-cyber-attacks-cheats) - [AI and Agility: The Dynamic Duo for Disruption](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2081-ai-and-agility-the-dynamic-duo-for-disruption) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE – Web Scraping, Agents, Actors and more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1764-wearedevelopers-live-web-scraping-agents-actors-and-more) - [Agent Smith Gets Hardware: Autonomous IoT Hacking From Debug Port to Cloud API](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100258-agent-smith-gets-hardware-autonomous-iot-hacking-from-debug-port-to-cloud-api) ## Related Articles - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [From developer to manager – what does it take to become an engineering manager?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/42-from-developer-to-manager-what-does-it-take-to-become-an-engineering-manager) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development)