Technical Program Manager (Hardware)

Technical Program Manager (Hardware)
 

Be an integral member of a global, highly-experienced team in R&D that drives the planning and execution of advanced microcontroller and microprocessors. We are part of Advanced Chip Engineering (ACE), a central design organization within NXP, developing products for multiple business lines in Automotive, Internet of Things (IoT), Networking, and Radio Frequency products, with expertise in hardware engineering, including architecture, IP, and full SoC Design.

As a Technical Program Manager your challenge will be to lead effective core teams with diverse technical leaders, helping them prioritize activities and communicate clearly while influencing peers and managers, and holding everyone accountable. You will drive strict project pace by accurately identifying technical risks for appropriate and timely closure.

Your responsibilities

• Leading all phases of SoC projects from architectural definition to validation

• Creating project plans with milestones, timelines, ownership, and drive delivery

• Facilitating project calls with global cross-functional teams to drive progress and resolve issues

• Facilitating project health check awareness and support executive/senior management reporting

• Acting as the first line of contact for issue escalation

• Providing balance in technical support for architectural approvals, development, documentation closure and source control management (quality control)

• Ensuring that the team is effectively delivering on their objectives and all the plans are on track. Perform risk analysis, identify and execute on mitigation steps

Your team

The NXP ACE Engineering Program Management team are a truly global and diverse team of experienced PMs from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences leading a diverse portfolio across multiple business lines in a matrix organization. They work in close collaboration with the business lines to achieve the market timing and business financial goals, leading the central SOC engineering teams through all the project lifecycles.

By using all PM fundamentals they drive a highly effective NPI process and continuously improve the PM tools, procedures and best practices with enthusiasm and energy to ensure on-time and on quality product delivery through use of analytics and metrics.

Your profile

To be successful in this role you have:

• Minimum 15 years experience as a successful Program Manager with success in leading high complexity SoC Designs

• Minimum 5 years design experience in complex SoC projects (e.g. SoC Architecture, IP, RTL through Physical Implementation, Verification/Validation).

• BSEE or MSEE

• Deep knowledge of project management

• Management experience with proactive and solution-oriented approach

• Experience with Project Management tools such as MS Project or similar

• General understanding of system design and architectural definition

Location: 

This position is located in Austin, TX.  We offer a hybrid environment where you will work in the office 3 days a week and work from home 2 days a week.  This position is NOT open to 100% remote work.

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