Senior NPI Technical Program Manager - Operations
NVIDIA· Program Mgr, Technical
Santa Clara, CA$168k - $258.8kfull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior NPI Program Manager (Operations) responsible for the Operations NPI schedule and milestones from tape-out to production release within NVIDIA's Silicon Operations Group. Acts as a product-facing lead for silicon bring-up in Operations, driving cross-functional collaboration, process improvements, and metrics for NPI across planning, engineering, logistics, and quality teams.
Responsibilities
- Track and communicate key results, constraints, risks, dependencies and identify critical paths with ASIC, product, test, system, software engineering and planning teams and other program managers.
- Handle cross-functional communications independently within a matrixed GM team and publish progress/roadblocks to upper management.
- Bring diverse teams together to tackle complex problems and work towards closure.
- Develop Plan of Record (POR), ensuring qualification plans, checklists and specifications are in place to support production release.
- Develop engineering wafer and hardware risk plans and own internal and external sample supply.
- Lead and attend cross-functional NPI meetings related to your product and highlight key Ops issues to ensure production readiness.
- Drive process improvement initiatives for NPI across Operations and cross-functional teams to improve efficiency and speed to market.
- Own metrics for NPI supply commits, production ramp and release turning points and manage bring-up budgets/OPEX for NPI.
- Develop processes and metrics for Ops planning, engineering, logistics and quality teams.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of proven experience in an engineering or technical/engineering program management role.
- Bachelor’s in EE (or equivalent experience), Master’s preferred.
- PMP or other Project/Program Management Certification is a plus.
- Excellent leadership, problem-solving, decision-making and cross-functional influencing skills.
- Proficiency in Program Management and planning tools. Ability to analyze and solve supply chain processes.
- Excellent knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing flow and processes.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills.
- Ability to work independently and navigate ambiguous situations.
Skills
Required:Program managementCross-functional leadershipPlan of Record (POR) developmentWafer/hardware risk planning
Benefits
- equity
- benefits (see NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Jul 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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