Principal ASIC Engineering Program Manager

Location: Hybrid, with an average requirement of 2 days per week from an HPE office in Ft. Collins, Colorado; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; or Spring, Texas

Base salary: USD 147,000–279,000 annually in Colorado; USD 140,000–321,000 annually in Texas and Wisconsin. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Company

hirify.global is an edge-to-cloud technology company connecting, protecting, analyzing, and acting on data and applications.

What you will do

• Provide strategic technical coordination and program leadership across all stages of complex ASIC development, including architecture, design, verification, physical implementation, validation, manufacturing readiness, and test.
• Manage vendors and outsourced development partners, including schedules, deliverables, dependencies, risks, recovery plans, and commercial and technical alignment.
• Coordinate physical-design progress, manufacturing readiness, material and purchase-order status, supply-chain capacity, and overall program milestones.
• Build execution plans, operating rhythms, metrics, quality practices, and decision frameworks that improve predictability across ASIC programs.
• Lead alignment among engineering, architecture, operations, finance, procurement, manufacturing, product, software, systems, supply-chain, customer, and external partner organizations.
• Provide executives and product stakeholders with program analysis, status, tradeoffs, escalations, recommendations, and decisions on scope, investment, risk, sourcing, and schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• Typically 10+ 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 connections between technical execution, manufacturing, supply chain, partners, and business milestones.
• Deep practical knowledge of ASIC design flows, stage gates, signoff criteria, verification and validation, physical design, manufacturing readiness, and silicon program dependencies.
• Expertise in 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, with the ability to turn ambiguous technical and business conditions into clear decisions and executable plans.
• Business and financial acumen 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 relationships.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication, advanced negotiation and conflict-resolution skills, and a record of mentoring others and strengthening the technical community.

Nice to have

• PMP/PMI certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, financial, and emotional wellbeing benefits are provided for employees and their loved ones.
• Professional development programs support progression toward expertise or opportunities in other divisions.
• Inclusive workplace that values varied backgrounds and individual uniqueness.
• Work flexibility is available alongside the stated hybrid office requirement.