Technical Program Manager - Contract

Ayar Labs • San Jose, CA

5h • $85 - $100 • Onsite

About The Position

Ayar Labs is seeking a Technical Program Manager to join their team. This role is focused on building data tools and pipelines that support hardware engineering teams. The position sits at the intersection of software and silicon, transforming raw test, lab, and design data into clean, queryable datasets. The successful candidate will build internal applications and dashboards for engineers to analyze results and make decisions faster. This is a hands-on role requiring end-to-end ownership, from understanding engineering needs to designing pipelines and shipping web interfaces.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1+ years of professional or substantial project experience in software or data engineering.
• Proficient in using JIRA and MS project tracking for building plans, schedule and tracking weekly progress.
• Familiarity with product development and commercialization processes.
• Familiarity with data visualization and building dashboards or interactive data views.
• Experience leveraging modular agent frameworks (such as Agent Kit and Claude CLI Kit) to automate repetitive tasks.
• Clear communicator who can work with non-software engineers to translate their needs into working tools.

Nice To Haves

• A portfolio of shipped projects, such as a public data analytics web app or open-source work.
• Experience with BI or visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Grafana, Plotly/Dash).
• Experience in the semiconductor, photonics, or hardware industry, or working with test and measurement data.

Responsibilities

• Develop internal systems and workflow automations to support engineering operations using AI tools and frameworks.
• Develop tools to manage program schedules, budgets, and resource plans to ensure on-time and on-budget program delivery.
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest, clean, and transform engineering data (test results, characterization data, yield and validation metrics) from multiple sources.
• Automate validation reporting by integrating Jira data with internal documentation, generating standardized reports for customers and internal teams.
• Develop internal tools and web applications that let hardware, test, and product engineers explore data, run analyses, and share results.
• Build interactive dashboards and visualizations that make complex datasets easy to understand.
• Model and manage data in relational databases; write efficient, well-structured SQL.
• Automate repetitive engineering workflows and reporting to save teams time and reduce manual error.
• Partner directly with engineering stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize features, and iterate on tools based on feedback.
• Write tested, documented, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.
• Monitor pipeline health and data quality, and troubleshoot issues when they come up.
• Work with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and ensure alignment on project goals, milestones, and deliverables.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Policy to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship.
• Veterans are more than welcome and encouraged to apply.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree