# Technical Program Manager, Hardware at Density

- Company: Density
- What the company does: Density shows you how people use your space and helps you get more out of every square foot. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://www.density.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/densityai/jobs/4283953009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/density-technical-program-manager-hardware/

## About the role

Drive the cross-functional execution of our AI accelerator hardware program — owning the schedules, dependencies, and risk across silicon, board/system hardware, and the low-level software that brings it to life, from architecture through tapeout, bring-up, and scale-out. [+] You're technical enough to go a level deeper than a typical PM: comfortable in the systems-programming layer (firmware, drivers, bring-up software) where hardware and software meet, not just tracking it from the outside.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of technical program/project management in hardware, silicon, or deeply technical software, driving complex cross-functional programs to delivery
- Strong technical fluency — you can hold your own with chip-design and software engineers and understand the dependencies between RTL/PD/DV/packaging and compiler/runtime/bring-up
- Systems-programming background: hands-on C/C++ (and/or Rust), Linux internals, firmware, device drivers, or bring-up software — enough to read the code, dig into low-level issues, and earn engineers' trust
- Demonstrated ownership of schedule, critical path, and risk on a large multi-team program, ideally through a silicon tapeout or a comparable hardware milestone
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management, from IC engineers to executives
- Comfort operating in ambiguity at startup pace, bias to action, lightweight, high-trust process

Tags: Hardware