The Director of Post-Silicon Program Management is a hands-on program management leader responsible for driving post-silicon execution and silicon readiness for high-complexity Arm-based SoC build initiatives.  

The primary focus of this role is ensuring silicon functional validation completeness, silicon bring-up readiness, board-level validation readiness, and convergence toward functionality, efficiency, energy consumption, and quality objectives!

Unlike traditional Program Leadership roles, this is a high-impact individual contributor position requiring high attention to detail, deep understanding of program management tools and methods, and technical expertise!  The skill to shape, harmonize, and advance outcomes across a highly matrixed organization without formal control is key.    

In programs where portions of post-silicon execution are performed by external vendors or partners, this role provides program execution oversight, coordination, and integration management to ensure results, dependencies, quality, and schedules remain aligned with overall program objectives.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own post-silicon program execution for sophisticated SoC programs, from bring-up through validation, qualification, and manufacturing readiness.
• Build and handle integrated execution plans across schedules, dependencies, critical paths, deliverables, risks, blockers, and mitigation plans.
• Serve as the central coordination point across silicon validation, board bring-up, software enablement, debug, operations, TPMs, vendors, and external partners.
• Drive cross-functional convergence on functional correctness, performance, power, quality, validation readiness, board readiness, and release criteria.
• Lead execution forums with clear actions, ownership, accountability, issue resolution, and follow-through.
• Identify execution gaps and improve post-silicon processes, tools, workflows, and feedback loops to strengthen future program readiness.
• Establish and maintain operational rigor with an integrated view of overall post-silicon program health and execution progress, including:
  • Detailed schedule development and dependency management
  • Critical paths and trade-offs
  • Deliverables status and readiness
  • Risks, blockers, and dependencies
  • Readiness gaps and mitigation plans
  • Cross-functional execution status
  • Validation and qualification readiness
  • Release and manufacturing handoff readiness criteria
  • Silicon and board bring-up readiness deliverables
  • Drive overall post-silicon execution tracking and convergence, maintaining clear transparency into program progress, deliverable readiness, dependencies, risks, and cross-functional execution status across all domains

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in semiconductor, silicon bring-up, validation, and technical program management supporting complex SoC development programs
• Shown experience leading complex, cross-functional programs in a matrixed organization.
• Strong ability to influence, align teams, and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Solid understanding of the post-silicon lifecycle, including silicon bring-up, validation, qualification, debug, software dependencies, and manufacturing handoff.
• Strong execution rigor with the ability to turn process into practical, consistent delivery.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills in ambiguous or high-pressure situations.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear, actionable updates.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across organizations and deliver on high-priority initiatives.

Nice To Have

• Experience with high-performance or infrastructure-class SoCs
• Exposure to multi-die integration and sophisticated cross-domain dependency management
• Experience working with external post-silicon vendors, labs, or ecosystem partners
• Familiarity with pre- to post-silicon correlation methodologies and silicon quality metrics

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