Senior Technical Program Manager, Chip Tools

NVIDIA

Senior Technical Program Manager for Chip Tools at NVIDIA, overseeing hardware engineering and program management. Ensure tool readiness and manage dependencies throughout the chip development lifecycle.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $322,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own end-to-end program management for Chip Tools, beginning with Fuse, ensuring reliability, uptime, and performance meet the needs of hardware engineering teams across the chip development lifecycle.
Drive tool health initiatives: define SLOs, track incidents, lead root cause analysis, and deliver on improvement roadmaps that reduce friction and prevent recurrence.
Build and maintain a dependency map across Chip Tools -understanding upstream and downstream relationships to surface risk, handle conflicts, and ensure alignment with the chip roadmap.
Partner with HW engineering leads to translate the chip development roadmap into tool readiness requirements; proactively identify gaps and mobilize engineering resources to close them.
Facilitate cross-team coordination across tool developers, infrastructure teams, and HW users -running structured program reviews, tracking action items, and holding teams accountable to commitments.
Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting mechanisms to give leadership and customers real-time insight into tool health, open risks, and delivery status.
Find opportunities to evolve Chip Tools from reactive support into a proactive, system-focused operating model - and build the processes to get there.
Onboard new tools into the Chip Tools portfolio as the scope expands beyond Fuse, establishing consistent standards for program management, change control, and incident response.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
12+ years of technical program management experience, ideally in hardware, chip development, or engineering infrastructure environments.
Deep familiarity with the hardware development lifecycle - you understand how chips get designed, verified, and manufactured, and where tools are critical path.
Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs with many interdependencies in a fast-moving organization.
Strong instincts for dependency management: you can build a dependency graph, read it for risk, and drive mitigations before they become blockers.
Experience owning tool or infrastructure reliability programs - you know what good uptime, incident management, and SLO frameworks look like.
Clear and direct communicator: you can translate technical complexity into crisp executive summaries and credibly partner with both engineers and senior leadership.
Data-driven approach to program management - you instrument what you own and use data to bring awareness, prioritize and demonstrate progress.

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity
comprehensive benefits package

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Hard Skills & Tools

program managementdependency managementincident managementSLO frameworksdata-driven program managementchip development lifecycletool reliabilityrisk managementroot cause analysisdashboard development

Soft Skills

clear communicationcross-team coordinationstakeholder managementproactive problem solvingleadershiporganizational skillsaccountabilitytechnical translationcollaborationstrategic thinking

Certifications

BS in Electrical EngineeringMS in Electrical EngineeringBS in Computer EngineeringMS in Computer EngineeringBS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science