Principal ASIC Engineering Program Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise•Fort Collins, CO

8d•$140,000 - $321,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal ASIC Engineering Program Manager provides strategic technical coordination and program leadership for complex ASIC development programs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The role leads VLSI engineering teams and internal and outsourced development partners across architecture, design, verification, physical implementation, validation, manufacturing readiness, and test. It manages executive-level vendor and partner relationships and aligns technical progress with manufacturing readiness, materials, purchase orders, and program milestones. The position anticipates and manages dependencies across engineering quality, validation, partner constraints, business demand, product road maps, supply-chain capacity, and customer commitments. It provides senior executives and product stakeholders with decision-quality analysis, communicates status and tradeoffs, and drives decisions about technical scope, investment, risk, sourcing, and schedule. The role also establishes program-management mechanisms and practices that improve predictability across ASIC programs and leads alignment among engineering, operations, finance, procurement, manufacturing, product, software, supply-chain, customer, and partner organizations. This is a hybrid role requiring an average of two days per week in an HPE office. The expected US base salary range is USD 147,000–279,000 in Colorado and USD 140,000–321,000 in Texas and Wisconsin; variable incentives may also be offered. Actual offers may vary based on location, experience, education or training, and skills.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or an equivalent technical discipline.
Typically 10 or more years of relevant engineering, technical program management, or silicon product development experience, including leadership of complex cross-functional programs.
Hands-on understanding of ASIC or VLSI design and development processes, including connecting technical execution to manufacturing, supply-chain, partner, and business milestones.
Deep practical understanding of ASIC design flows, stage gates, signoff criteria, verification and validation, physical design, manufacturing readiness, and silicon program dependencies.
Expertise in building and governing integrated execution plans, critical-path schedules, resource and capability models, budgets, risk systems, decision frameworks, and recovery plans for complex silicon programs.
Exceptional analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to turn ambiguous technical and business conditions into clear decisions and executable plans.
Business and financial acumen, including the ability to evaluate tradeoffs among schedule, scope, quality, risk, investment, supply, and customer commitments.
Ability to influence senior leaders, technical authorities, matrixed teams, vendors, and partners without relying on direct reporting relationships.
Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including concise presentation of program strategy, options, recommendations, risks, and results.
Advanced negotiation and conflict-resolution skills with internal executives, engineering leaders, external vendors, foundries, technology partners, and other stakeholders.
Recognized authority in technical program leadership for ASIC or VLSI development, with a record of mentoring others and strengthening the broader technical community.

Nice To Haves

PMP/PMI certification.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic technical coordination and program leadership to VLSI engineering teams and internal and outsourced development partners throughout complex ASIC development, including architecture, design, verification, physical implementation, validation, manufacturing readiness, and test.
Manage vendors and development partners at the executive level, including expectations, schedules, deliverables, commercial and technical dependencies, risk response, and recovery.
Align VLSI physical-design progress, manufacturing readiness, material and purchase-order status, and overall program milestones.
Anticipate and manage dependencies across design quality, verification and validation, partner constraints, business demand, product road maps, supply-chain capacity, and customer commitments.
Resolve ambiguity and align stakeholders around a common execution plan.
Provide decision-quality program analysis to senior executives and product stakeholders; communicate status, tradeoffs, escalations, and recommendations; and drive timely decisions on technical scope, investment, risk acceptance, sourcing, and schedule.
Establish durable program-management mechanisms, operating rhythms, metrics, and quality practices that improve predictability and execution across ASIC programs.
Lead cross-functional alignment among engineering development, architecture, operations, finance, procurement, manufacturing, product management, marketing, software and systems teams, supply-chain organizations, end customers, and external partners.
Demonstrate sustained leadership and measurable impact across significant programs by improving time to market, cost, quality, risk posture, execution predictability, or the ability to meet customer needs.
Mentor others and contribute to the broader HPE technical community.