Principal ASIC Engineering Program Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Ft. Collins, CO

7d • $140,000 - $321,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hiring a Principal ASIC Engineering Program Manager to provide strategic technical coordination and program leadership across complex ASIC development. The role leads teams of VLSI engineers and internal and outsourced development partners through architecture, design, verification, physical implementation, validation, manufacturing readiness, and test. It has substantial technical impact on significant products and programs and serves as an internal authority in ASIC/VLSI technical program leadership.

The position owns executive-level vendor and partner management, including expectations, schedules, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and recovery. It aligns physical-design progress and manufacturing readiness with materials, purchase orders, and program milestones; anticipates dependencies across engineering, supply chain, business demand, road maps, and customer commitments; and provides senior leaders with clear analysis, status, tradeoffs, escalations, and recommendations. It also establishes durable program-management mechanisms and operating practices that improve execution and predictability across ASIC programs, while mentoring others and strengthening the HPE technical community.

The role is hybrid, requiring an average of two days per week in an HPE office. HPE describes benefits supporting health and wellbeing, along with programs for personal and professional development and an inclusive workplace. The stated base salary ranges are $147,000–$279,000 in Colorado and $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 skill level.

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 the ability to connect 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 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 direct reporting authority.
• 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, 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 across ASIC development, from architecture through 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 involving design quality, verification and validation, partner constraints, business demand, product road maps, supply-chain capacity, and customer commitments.
• Resolve ambiguity and align stakeholders on 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.
• Establish program-management mechanisms, operating rhythms, metrics, and quality practices that improve predictability and execution across ASIC programs.
• Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, architecture, operations, finance, procurement, manufacturing, product management, marketing, software and systems teams, supply-chain organizations, end customers, and external partners.
• Deliver measurable improvements in 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing for employees and their loved ones.
• Programs supporting personal and professional development and career goals.
• Variable incentives may also be offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal