Tech Program / Project Manager

Overview

Lead an integrated program from definition through delivery for the Semiconductor Products and Customers business unit, coordinating cross-functional teams, product integration, risk management and release readiness.

What you'll do

• Own the integrated program plan from definition through delivery, including scope, milestones, dependencies, critical path, decision points, and measurable outcomes.
• Align software, systems, electrical, algorithms, applications, and hardware teams around priorities, commitments, and release readiness.
• Coordinate integration across High-Performance Computing (HPC) software, tool software, hardware, and processing workflows to deliver a reliable bench solution.
• Identify technical, schedule, resource, and operational risks early; drive mitigation, escalation, and replanning when conditions change.
• Lead the team through KLA's Product Lifecycle process, ensuring plans, evidence, risks, and cross-functional readiness are clear at key decision points.
• Partner with marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, install, and service teams to prepare solutions for deployment, support, and scale.
• Work with marketing and global customers to understand operating environments and define site-preparation and IT requirements that support successful product adoption.
• Use relevant metrics and concise, objective updates to communicate progress, decisions, trade-offs, risks, and business impact.
• Build strong working relationships, encourage ownership, resolve ambiguity, and influence multidisciplinary teams without relying on direct authority.

What you'll need

• Experience leading complex technical programs or new-product development from concept through integration, release, and customer adoption.
• Strong understanding of product architectures that combine software, computing infrastructure, hardware, processing workflows, and real-time analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage integrated schedules, dependencies, critical paths, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Technical judgment to ask the right questions, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure plans address performance, reliability, cost, manufacturability, and serviceability.
• Ability to translate business goals and customer needs into clear program priorities and execution plans.
• Strong leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using meaningful indicators to communicate progress, readiness, quality, and program impact.
• Working knowledge of Agile, iterative, and waterfall development approaches, with the judgment to apply the right method to the work.
• Doctorate degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience; or Bachelor's degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• Relevant experience may come from technical program management, project management, systems engineering, product development, software or hardware delivery, or a closely related field.

Nice to have

• Semiconductor equipment, industrial systems, scientific instrumentation, or another complex hardware-software product environment.
• Customer engagement, feedback analysis, deployment readiness, or product adoption planning.
• HPC platforms, data processing pipelines, software release systems, digital twins, replay or simulation environments.
• Formal program or project management practices and tools; a PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent credential is helpful but not required.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.