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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Technical Program Manager - **Company:** ARM - **Location:** Sunset Valley, TX, United States - **Salary:** $214,200.0 - $289,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), PRINCE2, Subsystems, Systems Integration, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Information Technology - **Published:** November 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2ac0886750f482b2 ## About the Role * Proven experience independently leading complex technical product-development projects within the semiconductor industry, with accountability for execution and successful delivery across multiple engineering teams or disciplines. * Strong project or program management capabilities, including integrated planning, scheduling, critical-path management, dependency tracking, risk mitigation, change management, and recovery planning. * Experience working closely with engineers and technical leaders in complex product-development environments, with sufficient technical understanding to recognize challenges, evaluate dependencies, challenge assumptions, and support informed decision-making. * Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams, influence stakeholders without direct authority, navigate ambiguity, resolve complex delivery challenges, and communicate effectively with technical teams and senior leadership. Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience * Experience delivering projects in one or more areas such as semiconductor IP, Compute Subsystems, SoC/ASIC development, RTL design and verification, FPGA or hardware emulation, or pre-silicon and post-silicon validation. * Experience with hardware platforms, PCB or board development, customer reference boards, embedded systems, or hardware/software integration. * Familiarity with silicon bring-up, product qualification, software enablement, or power and performance development. * A degree or equivalent industry experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline. * Professional project or program management certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, or MSP. ## Description * Independently lead complex technical engineering projects from initial definition through development, integration, validation, and delivery, taking ownership of project execution and outcomes. * Establish clear project objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria, developing integrated plans and schedules that support delivery commitments. * Proactively manage project schedules, critical paths, technical dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and changes to scope or delivery commitments. * Partner with Engineering Technical Leads to understand development challenges, evaluate delivery impacts, challenge assumptions, and establish effective mitigation and recovery plans. * Coordinate cross-functional engineering teams across disciplines, organizations, and locations, ensuring alignment on priorities, responsibilities, and commitments. * Anticipate and resolve project challenges, facilitating timely decisions and driving actions to maintain progress toward delivery. * Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to understand project requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure deliverables meet the needs of the teams or customers relying on them. * Establish meaningful project metrics and communicate progress, risks, issues, and trade-offs clearly to engineering teams and senior stakeholders. * Build strong relationships across engineering organizations, influencing decisions and driving accountability without direct management authority. * Identify opportunities to improve project planning, execution practices, and delivery predictability across engineering teams., Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you. ## About Arm Arm is the industry’s highest-performing and most power-efficient compute platform with unmatched scale that touches 100 percent of the connected global population. To meet the insatiable demand for compute, Arm is delivering advanced solutions that allow the world’s leading technology companies to unleash the unprecedented experiences and capabilities of AI. Together with the world’s largest computing ecosystem and 22 million software developers, we are building the future of AI on Arm. [Company profile](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/companies/3413-arm) ### More Jobs at Arm - [Senior Board Test Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4603051-senior-board-test-engineer) - [Principal Technical Program Manager](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4609142-principal-technical-program-manager) - [Senior Board Test Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4601066-senior-board-test-engineer) - [Salesforce Data Consultant/Data Migration Consultant](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4600143-salesforce-data-consultant-data-migration-consultant) - [Staff SOC Performance Architect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4609493-staff-soc-performance-architect)