Job Description
Arm is seeking a Technical Program Manager – Data Center to support Solution Engineering (SE) validation execution for data center SoC programs. This role applies expert-level program management governance to ensure SE-owned validation 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 validation activities. A core responsibility is collaborating with the full Validation organization to build, maintain, and track the validation 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 validation expectations/quality before downstream productization.
What You’ll Be Doing
Provide program management leadership for Solution Engineering validation planning and execution tracking on data center SoC programs
Partner closely with all Validation teams to:
- Build and maintain the validation execution schedule from Tape-Out (TO) through readiness for productization
- Track validation activities, dependencies, and readiness achievements
Act as a central coordination and tracking point for SE validation activities across ASIC design, silicon validation, systems, software, platform, and manufacturing teams.
Ensure correlation various validation results, including Functional stability, Performance versus pre-silicon projections, Power versus modeled expectations.
Partner with engineering, silicon, software, and system TPMs to align assumptions, surface gaps, and support convergence between models and silicon behavior.
Coordinate and facilitate SE validation 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 validation metrics and readiness indicators, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and usefulness.
Track and implement clear exit criteria for SE validation scope, ensuring SoC readiness for downstream handoff.
Track and handle SE validation compliance, highlighting budget risks and variances early.
Prepare clear, structured status reports, risk summaries, and readiness updates for engineering and program leadership.
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 validation execution for intricate SoCs.
- Strong understanding of validation flows, achievements, and readiness expectations.
- Solid understanding of Validation 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 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.
Validation 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 validation execution health.
Downstream teams receive a clean, well-understood handoff of the SoC for productization.
In Return:
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