# Hardware Technical Program Manager at Efficient Computer

- Company: Efficient Computer
- What the company does: Efficient Computer builds the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose AI chips, delivering up to 100× better efficiency than low-power CPUs. Backed by USV.
- Company website: https://www.efficient.computer/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area OR Pittsburgh, PA OR Austin, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/efficientcomputer/jobs/4370905009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/efficient-computer-hardware-technical-program-manager/

## About the role

You will be the operational center of the program: building and defending the schedule, driving the critical path, surfacing risk early, and making the tradeoff conversations happen before they become slips. You'll work daily with architecture, RTL design, DV/emulation, DFT, physical design, package, firmware, and the foundry/IP vendor ecosystem. Join our team and help us shape the future of computing at the edge and beyond!

## What they're looking for

- B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent, M.S. or MBA a plus
- 7+ years in semiconductor/hardware engineering or program management, including at least 2 full SoC/ASIC programs taken from concept through tapeout and silicon bring-up
- Working fluency in the chip design flow: RTL, functional verification and coverage closure, DFT, synthesis, PnR, STA, physical signoff (DRC/LVS/IR/EM), GDSII handoff, and post-silicon validation
- Demonstrated ability to build and defend a bottoms-up schedule with critical path analysis and dependency mapping
- Track record influencing without authority — earning the technical credibility to push senior engineers on commitments and dates
- Strong written and verbal communication, able to run a room of principal engineers and an exec review with equal effectiveness

Tags: Engineering