What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at netPolarity, Inc. (Saicon Consultants, Inc.)?
Job Title: - Project Manager
Location: - San Jose, CA (On-Site)
Role Type: - 12 Months contract
THE ROLE:
The Product Development Group is looking for an NPI Program Manager focused on Adaptive and Embedded Computing products, with a strong emphasis on engineering execution for board and silicon orders across the product lifecycle. In this role, you will drive technical readiness for engineering builds, silicon availability, board bring-up, and qualification activities by partnering closely with design, validation, planning, operations, and manufacturing teams to ensure boards and silicon are delivered in alignment with development and release milestones.
THE PERSON:
The ideal candidate combines strong technical program management skills with hands-on understanding of board development, silicon readiness, and NPI execution. This role requires experience coordinating engineering demand, managing board and silicon order priorities, tracking build dependencies, and driving cross-functional alignment across design, validation, operations, and manufacturing teams. Strong communication, problem solving, and end-to-end ownership are essential.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own board and silicon order execution across the NPI lifecycle, aligning engineering demand with prototype builds, bring-up activities, validation needs, and key development milestones.
- Drive execution of board and silicon orders to support engineering schedules by partnering with design, validation, planning, and operations teams on priorities, constraints, and readiness plans.
- Manage board and silicon demand signals, monitor material and component availability, and coordinate resolution of technical and supply constraints that may impact board assembly, bring-up, validation, and qualification.
- Establish and improve engineering order management processes for boards and silicon, including build planning inputs, status reviews, escalation paths, and change control to maintain alignment across technical and operational stakeholders.
- Coordinate with engineering, operations, and fulfillment teams to ensure board and silicon orders support prototype builds, lab validation, qualification milestones, and production ramp readiness.
- Lead readiness reviews for board and silicon order execution, including supply status, build readiness, technical risks, validation dependencies, and stakeholder alignment prior to major engineering milestones.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field, with 7 years of experience in hardware development, electronics manufacturing, NPI, or technical program management.
- Demonstrated experience managing board or silicon order execution in support of engineering builds, validation activities, and cross-functional hardware development schedules.
- Strong understanding of board development, silicon lifecycle, validation flows, and operational processes required to support engineering execution through NPI and production.
- Demonstrated ability in strategic planning, risk management, change management, project management
- Experience working with quality management approaches, techniques, and principles to ensure quality
- Able to manage and organize multiple projects in parallel
- Self-motivated individual that enjoys establishing processes to improve the overall efficiency of the team
- Strong knowledge of project and productivity tools including Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite etc.