Job Description

Arm is seeking a Technical Program Manager – Data Center Post-Silicon to support Solution Engineering (SE) post-silicon validation execution for data center SoC programs. This role applies expert-level program management governance to ensure SE-owned post-silicon work is well planned, rigorously supervised, cost-controlled, and ready against defined exit criteria.

The role works in close partnership with Validation, Design, Systems, and peer TPM teams to provide execution structure, coordination, and oversight for SE post-silicon activities. A core responsibility is collaborating with the Validation organization to build, maintain, and track the post-silicon execution plan from Tape-Out (TO) through readiness for productization of the SoC.

This role emphasizes planning, coordination, tracking, and follow-through, ensuring the SoC meets post-silicon expectations/quality before downstream productization.

What You’ll Be Doing

Provide program management leadership for Solution Engineering post-silicon validation planning and execution tracking on data center SoC programs

Partner closely with Validation teams to:

• Build and maintain the post-silicon execution schedule from Tape-Out (TO) through readiness for productization
• Track validation activities, dependencies, and readiness achievements

Track and communicate post-silicon execution status, risks, dependencies, and critical paths within SE scope.

Act as a central coordination and tracking point for SE post-silicon activities across ASIC design, silicon validation, systems, software, platform, and manufacturing teams.

Ensure correlation between pre-silicon expectations and post-silicon results, including Functional stability, Performance versus pre-silicon projections, Power versus modeled expectations.

Partner with pre-silicon, silicon, software, and system TPMs to align assumptions, surface gaps, and support convergence between models and silicon behavior.

Coordinate and facilitate SE post-silicon execution reviews, triage discussions, and validation syncs, ensuring clear ownership, prioritization, and follow-up.

Coordinate silicon, hardware, and sample readiness tracking in support of validation schedules.

Track agreed post-silicon metrics and readiness indicators, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and usefulness.

Track and implement clear exit criteria for SE post-silicon scope, ensuring SoC readiness for downstream handoff.

Track and handle SE post-silicon cost compliance, highlighting budget risks and variances early.

Prepare clear, structured status reports, risk summaries, and readiness updates for engineering and program leadership.

Ensure post-silicon issues, gaps, and takeaways are documented and carried forward once the SoC is ready for productization.

What We Need To See

Program Management Expertise (Required)

Expert-level technical program management experience, with established ownership of:

• Complex schedule development and tracking
• Dependency and risk management
• Cost tracking and control
• Execution reporting and follow-through

Formal project / program management training or certification (e.g., PMP) — required.

Expertise with program management and planning tools, including Microsoft Project, execution trackers, and dashboards.

Technical Background (Focused)

• Experience supporting post-silicon validation execution for intricate SoCs.
• Strong understanding of post-silicon validation flows, achievements, and readiness expectations.
• Solid understanding of pre- vs post-silicon correlation, including functional, performance, and power behavior.
• Ability to work credibly with Validation, Design, and Systems teams to handle schedules, risks, and exit criteria.

Core Skills

Strong multi-functional coordination and stakeholder management skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to:

• Provide concise, accurate execution visibility upward
• Drive visibility, accountability, and follow-through across teams

Support operating in high-ambiguity, execution-intensive environments.

Success Criteria

Solution Engineering post-silicon validation work for the SoC is fully planned, tracked, and transparent from TO through readiness for productization.

Exit criteria for SE scope are clearly tracked and met.

Post-silicon execution remains within approved cost targets, with risks surfaced early

Validation schedules and dependencies are accurate, current, and actively handled.

Leadership has clear, reliable insight into SE post-silicon execution health.

Downstream teams receive a clean, well-understood handoff of the SoC for productization.

In Return:

Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer, collaborate, and grow. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work: https://careers.arm.com/en/10x-mindset

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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