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AXAxelera AI

Software Technical Program Manager(m/w/x)

Zürich
Full-timeRemoteExperienced
AI/ML

Managing AI platform software projects, coordinating multiple sub-teams and building detailed plans. 3-5 years technical program management experience required. Company shares option, pension plan.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years technical programme/project management
  • Software-intensive technology organisation experience
  • Semiconductor toolchains, compilers, AI/ML frameworks, or embedded systems software experience preferred
  • Coordinating cross-team software integration efforts
  • Driving integration task accountability across teams
  • Technical literacy in compiler toolchains, runtime systems, model optimisation, inference pipelines
  • Understanding engineering landscape for management
  • Improving delivery predictability on complex software projects
  • Estimation calibration experience
  • Phased integration planning experience
  • Experience in matrixed environment
  • Managing by influence across teams
  • Building trust with senior engineers
  • Familiarity with AI/ML model deployment pipelines
  • Familiarity with LLM/generative AI workloads
  • Familiarity with agile or SAFe-inspired planning methodologies
  • PI planning experience
  • Sprint/iteration management experience
  • Backlog refinement experience
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills in English
  • Translating complex technical status to clear summaries
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Tracking task-level dependencies
  • Identifying estimation drift
  • Maintaining accurate project records
  • Ability to work independently with autonomy
  • Proactively identifying issues and driving resolution

Tasks

  • Manage day-to-day planning and execution of complex software projects
  • Coordinate across multiple software sub-teams
  • Build and maintain detailed project plans with task dependencies
  • Work with engineering sub-team leads to establish realistic estimates
  • Identify and define integration milestones and dependencies
  • Drive the integration process for assigned projects
  • Ensure integration tasks have clear technical ownership
  • Establish and track definition-of-done criteria for project phases
  • Facilitate daily or appropriate-cadence coordination standups
  • Identify and resolve blockers within 24 hours
  • Assign and track resolution of issues to named engineers
  • Monitor estimation accuracy and delivery predictability
  • Identify and address patterns of optimistic estimation
  • Escalate single-person critical path dependencies
  • Prepare and maintain project-level status views and risk registers
  • Contribute to programme-level process improvements
  • Align project plans with overall release roadmap and portfolio priorities

Work Experience

  • 3 - 5 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishNative

Tools & Technologies

  • AI/ML frameworks
  • compilers
  • semiconductor toolchains
  • embedded systems software
  • AI/ML model deployment pipelines
  • LLM
  • generative AI
  • agile
  • SAFe

Benefits

Retirement Plans

  • Pension plan

Healthcare & Fitness

  • Extensive employee insurances

Competitive Pay

  • Company shares option

Informal Culture

  • Open culture

Other Benefits

  • Support for creativity

Startup Environment

  • Support for continual innovation
  • Collaborative ownership

Purpose-Driven Work

  • Freedom with responsibility
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