Program Management - Principal / Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager – IP, ASIC & Chiplet Platforms

ON-SITE (BAY AREA) Join the leading chiplet startup! As an Eliyan Principal Technical Program Manager, you will be working at a fast-paced early-stage startup creating technologies that fuel tomorrow’s chiplet based systems with best-in-class power, area, manufacturability, and design flexibility. You will be responsible for leading, planning, and help execute ASIC development and platform program. You will work with a cross-functional team of experts that operate from first principles, innovate and push the envelope to create high-volume and high-performance manufacturable products. We offer a fun work environment with excellent benefits.

Key Responsibilities: • Program Leadership: Own end-to-end execution of IP, ASIC, and platform programs, from architecture and IP definition through design, verification, validation, silicon bring-up, and production readiness.

• Plan of Record & Critical Path Management: Build and maintain an integrated program schedule spanning design, verification, DFT, physical design, packaging, and software; own the critical path and drive it to closure.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner daily with digital design, design verification, DFT, physical design, analog/mixed-signal design, packaging and substrate design, PCB and platform design, silicon bring-up, firmware, and software teams to keep every workstream aligned.

• Technical Fluency: Get into the technical details of interconnect and chiplet architecture, packaging tradeoffs, and SoC-level integration — enough to ask sharp questions, unblock engineering decisions, and speak credibly with customers and partners.

• Vendor and IP Management: Manage external IP vendors and OSAT/packaging partners, holding them accountable to committed timelines, specifications, and quality.

• Customer Engagement: Serve as the primary program interface to customers, defining deliverables and ensuring seamless integration of Eliyan’s IP and silicon solutions into their products.

• Schedule and Risk Management: Define milestones, maintain a live risk register, and proactively identify and mitigate the risks most likely to move the critical path.

• Budget and Resource Allocation: Manage program budgets, allocate resources efficiently, and track spend against plan to optimize development efforts.

• Technical Reviews and Decision-Making: Run regular program and technical reviews, surface tradeoffs, and drive decisions that optimize performance, cost, and schedule.

• Executive Reporting and Metrics: Quantify program health with clear KPIs, and translate technical detail into concise, decision-ready updates for engineering leadership and executives.

• Process, Documentation, and Reporting: Define and continuously improve program management practices and tooling as Eliyan scales, maintain clear documentation, and keep stakeholders informed with regular updates.

Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 15+ years of semiconductor program management experience, including pre-silicon and post-silicon execution across at least two full IP or ASIC programs, from concept through production.

• Proven ability to lead large-scale, complex, multi-disciplinary semiconductor programs from architecture through volume production.

• Demonstrated ability to juggle multiple concurrent programs at once, making portfolio-level trade-offs — prioritizing resources, schedules, and scope across programs to maximize overall business impact.

• Deep working knowledge of the full silicon development lifecycle — front-end and back-end design, DV, DFT, packaging, PCB/platform design, and silicon bring-up.

• Experience managing external IP vendors and direct customer engagements around technical deliverables and integration.

• Strong track record driving schedule, risk, and budget management across many concurrent, interdependent workstreams.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor style, tone, and level of detail to any audience — from a deep technical exchange with individual engineers to a concise, decision-ready narrative for the CEO.

• Ability to influence and drive alignment across engineering teams without direct authority, in a fast-moving startup environment.

• Experience with program management tools (e.g., Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, Confluence) and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid).

Preferred Qualifications: • Direct experience with chiplet interconnect, UCIe, or die-to-die PHY programs, or with advanced packaging (2.5D/3D, CoWoS, InFO, or similar).

• Background in networking ASICs, mixed-signal PHY SoCs, high-performance computing, or AI/ML accelerator silicon.

• Working knowledge of firmware and software bring-up as it relates to silicon validation.

• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program management certification.

What We Offer: • The chance to shape the program management function at a company defining a new segment of the semiconductor industry.

• Direct, high-visibility partnership with Eliyan’s founding and technical leadership team.

• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive health benefits.

• A collaborative, first-principles engineering culture built around solving hard problems together.