# Technical Program Manager – Chip System Software

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA seeks an experienced Technical Program Manager (TPM) for the Chip System Software team. The team builds Linux platform software for AI-RAN and Software-Defined RAN (SD-RAN) solutions, combining NVIDIA technologies with commercial Linux systems like Canonical Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

As a TPM, you will advise on planning, coordination, and delivery of platform software programs, aligning efforts across software, hardware, customers, and ecosystem partners.

**Responsibilities:**

- Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Customers, and external vendors to gather and document product and platform software requirements.

- Develop and maintain project schedules, achievements, dependencies, and risk mitigation plans.

- Coordinate activities across Platform Software, Hardware, Silicon, Firmware, Product Management, Quality Engineering, Customer Engineering, and external collaborators.

- Drive software release readiness, ensuring achievements are met for internal development, customer evaluations, and production releases.

- Manage dependencies with external collaborators, including Canonical, Red Hat, silicon vendors, and ecosystem partners.

- Facilitate technical discussions, engineering reviews, build reviews, and program status meetings.

- Define and monitor key program metrics, deliverables, and executive dashboards.

- Support customer engagements by coordinating software deliverables, schedules, and issue resolution.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).

- 12+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or Software Development.

- Experience managing complex software programs involving Linux-based platforms.

- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, Agile methodologies, and software release processes.

- Experience in gathering and handling technical requirements involving several engineering teams and outside partners.

- Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.

- Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or similar.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience in working with Linux-based software, embedded systems, or enterprise Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and/or RHEL.

- Familiarity with kernel, BSP, software integration, and release engineering.

- Experience in networking, telecommunications, cloud platforms, or Software-Defined RAN technologies.

- Experience collaborating with hardware and software co-development teams.

- PMP, Scrum Master, or equivalent program management certification is a plus.

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- Agile methodologies
- software development lifecycles
- project management
- technical program management

### Nice to have
- Linux-based software
- embedded systems
- enterprise Linux distributions
- kernel
- BSP
- software integration
- release engineering
- networking
- telecommunications
- cloud platforms
- Software-Defined RAN technologies

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