Software Program Manager - HPC

Cornelis Networks, Inc. • Austin, TX

4d • Remote

About The Position

Cornelis Networks is seeking a Software Program Manager to drive execution across software initiatives for next-generation products. The role is part of a fast-paced, customer-focused company developing networking solutions for HPC and AI datacenters. It requires cross-functional coordination, disciplined execution, technical fluency, and the ability to establish clarity across software, firmware, hardware, validation, product, and customer-facing workstreams. The successful candidate will be organized, pragmatic, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to establish effective processes, align engineering teams around priorities and milestones, identify risks early, and communicate with technical teams, executives, and customer-facing stakeholders.

The position is remote for employees residing within the United States. Cornelis Networks offers a competitive compensation package that includes equity, cash, and incentives, as well as health and retirement benefits. Base pay depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and location relative to the hiring range. Depending on the role, employees may be eligible for performance-based incentives, including an annual bonus or sales incentives.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in software project management, including direct ownership of schedules, dependencies, and release execution.
• Experience supporting HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or other performance-critical systems environments.
• Experience coordinating software deliverables against hardware or platform schedules, including bring-up, integration, and system-level milestones.
• Strong knowledge of modern methodologies and AI workflows, and proficiency with tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills, including the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Software engineering background.
• Exposure to fabric, networking, or silicon product development, or AI training and inference infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution for software initiatives, including schedules, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and status.
• Partner with software engineering leaders to prioritize, track, and deliver work effectively.
• Own software schedules, deliverables, and dependencies supporting next-generation product milestones.
• Track commitments across software, firmware, hardware, and platform teams; surface scope, schedule, and integration tradeoffs early.
• Coordinate with development, test, DevOps, firmware, hardware, platform and systems engineering, and field organizations on priorities, dependencies, risks, release readiness, and customer commitments.
• Support software release planning by tracking scope, coordinating readiness reviews, managing defect and issue visibility, and supporting go/no-go decisions.
• Establish dashboards, status reports, risk registers, milestone tracking, and communication rhythms; update engineering leadership and executives on progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Drive visibility and follow-through on customer-facing software issues, escalations, and commitments, coordinating ownership, mitigation plans, and resolution status.
• Identify and implement practical improvements to planning, Jira workflows, release tracking, status reporting, bug triage, dependency management, and engineering execution.
• Facilitate discussions about competing priorities, resource constraints, schedule risks, and customer commitments; ensure decisions are surfaced and resolved with appropriate stakeholders.
• Maintain accessible project plans, schedules, risks, decisions, dependencies, and execution status; partner with engineering and architecture teams to clarify technical documentation ownership.

Benefits

• Equity, cash, and incentives as part of a competitive compensation package.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Dependent care flexible spending account.
• Accidental injury insurance.
• Pet insurance.
• Generous paid holidays.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Open Time Off (OTO) for regular full-time exempt employees.
• Sick time, bonding leave, and pregnancy disability leave.
• Potential eligibility for performance-based incentives, including an annual bonus or sales incentives.

What This Job Offers

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