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Manufacturing Operations Technical Programme Manager – Silicon and Packaging

Fractile· Programme Management
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About the role

Manufacturing Operations Technical Programme Manager responsible for managing silicon production, packaging design, packaging manufacturing, and delivery flow through to contract manufacturer. Interface between Fractile, foundry, OSAT partner, and internal operations to tightly manage milestones, schedules, risks, and handoffs from wafer production to packaged silicon delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end project plan from wafer production through packaged silicon delivery
  • Coordinate day-to-day activity with foundry, OSAT, packaging, logistics, and contract manufacturing partners
  • Track milestones across wafer starts, fab progress, packaging, assembly, final test, qualification, and shipment
  • Manage risks, dependencies, schedule changes, and timely issue resolution, working closely with team leads and programme managers for silicon, hardware systems and hardware test internally and external partners and suppliers
  • Ensure manufacturing documentation, test requirements, quality requirements, and build readiness materials are complete
  • Support NPI, prototype builds, qualification, and production ramp
  • Lead manufacturing operations programme reviews that surface risk early and clearly and contribute to overall programme portfolio reviews
  • Contribute to the design and rollout of scalable programme management practices across Fractile, covering planning, forecasting, reporting, risk and change control
  • Bring proven patterns from previous environments and adapt them to our development stage, pace and constraints rather than importing process for its own sake
  • Help establish shared tooling, templates and review cadences that work consistently across silicon, hardware, manufacturing and software workstreams

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in technical project management, operations, supply chain, or programme management in semiconductors or complex hardware
  • Experience working with foundries, OSATs, packaging suppliers, or contract manufacturers
  • Strong understanding of semiconductor production and packaging flows
  • Ability to manage complex schedules, multiple stakeholders, technical dependencies, supplier risks, and cross-functional execution
  • Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Linear, Asana, Smartsheet, MS Project or PLM systems
  • Experience working in a rapidly scaling organisation building process on the way
  • Advanced packaging, high-performance compute, chiplets, 2.5D/3D integration, or HBM-based packages (advantage)
  • Familiarity with silicon bring-up, NPI, qualification, yield tracking, and production ramp (advantage)
  • Working with Asian semiconductor supply chains and partners (advantage)
  • Highly organised with strong prioritisation discipline
  • Structured thinker with rigorous risk management instincts
  • Clear, concise communicator able to operate confidently with both engineers and executives

Skills

Required:Project planning and schedulingStakeholder managementRisk managementManufacturing documentation

Benefits

  • Competitive salary: A competitive salary reflective of your experience and the specialist nature of the role
  • Equity & Ownership: meaningful equity so everyone shares in the value creation
  • Benefits: Private Medical, Dental and Vision, Contributory Pension, 25 Days holiday plus bank holidays and Life/Critical Illness Insurance
  • Diverse & fun office: commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity, diverse team and inclusive environment
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Radically Accelerate Frontier Model Inference

Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.

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