Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

The Senior Manager for ASIC Technical Program Manager will play a pivotal role in definition and delivery of Kuiper ASIC products that will meet customer needs in the various segments. The right candidate must have demonstrated experience with advanced ASIC and software product development within consumer, commercial or telecommunications domains.



Key job responsibilities
• Manage a team of ASIC Technical Program Managers, and be responsible successful deliveries.
• Be responsible for the ASIC TPM team’s development and growth.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, hardware, software engineering teams to develop product strategy, long-term roadmap, business and production requirements and features for ASICs that will meet cost, performance, reliability and customer experience needs.
• Project management of development and delivery in collaboration with cross-functional project teams.
• Collaborate with development and supply chain leadership to identify third party partners.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders (SOC / ASIC leads) to create project execution plans for ASIC/FPGA development considering all criteria to design products the meet the power/performance and functional specs for all use conditions.
• Drive best Program Management practices for the team and organization at large.
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
• Work with product/program management leads to ensure that the ASIC development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
• Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-off recommendations, understand the technical challenges, enable solutions, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, firmware, packaging and PCB teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.
• Work with external IP and silicon vendors and partners to complete the execution of projects in time.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.


About the team
In this role, you and your team will collaborate with various teams (e.g. ASIC, antenna, firmware, software, electrical engineering, test, supply chain etc.) to develop program plans and execute against the plans to ensure that the ASICs meet schedule, cost, and quality requirements. This role communicates with clarity on the development status, inter-dependencies, and the next steps across the significant number of stakeholders and partnering team. You will navigate through ambiguity and manage project delivery in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Because Kuiper is inventing new technologies for our customers, we understand that working through ambiguity is a part of our work days. This role requires leveraging industry knowledge, exercising good engineering judgement, and joining a highly motivated and working hard to deliver Kuiper service to our customers.