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.

As the Silicon Development Technical Program Manager, you will support Google's custom silicon for AI by managing custom silicon development programs.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $163,000-$237,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Justify, plan, coordinate, and deliver custom silicon products or silicon development tooling, and infrastructure projects.

• Assess complexity and scope out the project, generate task lists, build a 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, identify potential future challenges, and identify mitigations with the various team leaders.

• 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.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in program management.

• Experience working with SoC subsystems.

• Experience managing silicon chip programs through all program stages including concept, architecture, design, validation, physical design, silicon engineering, silicon validation, and new product introductions (NPI).

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

• Experience in managing packaging-related aspects of silicon programs including semiconductor device packaging technology, managing vendors, evaluating packaging vendors and technologies, mechanical and thermal test vehicle development and characterization.