Technical Program Manager

This is an opportunity to contribute to high-impact technical programs at an important stage in Open Light's growth. You will work with multidisciplinary engineering teams and industry partners to help bring advanced silicon photonics technologies from development through qualification and production. The role provides broad exposure across engineering, operations, customers, and suppliers, along with the opportunity to improve how complex technical programs are planned and executed.

Open Light, a fast-growing silicon photonics company, is seeking a Technical Project/Program Manager to coordinate and drive the execution of cross-functional engineering and customer programs. We are a well-funded, privately held company with a mission to bring the benefits of Heterogeneous Integration to the market and has customers in a range of industries including AI and datacom, machine vision, and LIDAR.

As we expand our operations, this role will work closely with engineering, operations, product management, business development, and external suppliers to develop project plans, track deliverables, identify risks, and ensure programs meet their technical, schedule, quality, and budget objectives. Your strong technical foundation in the semiconductor (or related) industry, working with multidisciplinary engineering teams, and proactive, organized communication of project statuses, risks, and priorities for to technical and non-technical stakeholders will put you at the front of the line for this role.

• Coordinate multiple technical projects and programs from planning through completion

• Work with engineering and business stakeholders to define project objectives, requirements, milestones, deliverables, schedules, and resource needs

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, including dependencies, critical paths, and key decision points

• Track project progress and proactively identify schedule, technical, resource, and supplier risks

• Coordinate risk mitigation and recovery plans with project leads and cross-functional teams

• Facilitate regular project meetings, milestone reviews, and technical discussions

• Document decisions, action items, owners, and due dates, and ensure timely follow-through

• Coordinate activities across multidisciplinary teams, including wafer processing, photonic device and PIC design, layout, PDK, systems engineering, test, reliability, and qualification

• Own and / or support projects and work-in-progress involving external suppliers and manufacturing partners, including foundries, material suppliers, PCB fabrication and assembly vendors, packaging houses, and test facilities

• Maintain accurate and current project documentation, dashboards, schedules, and status reports

• Prepare concise program updates for management, highlighting progress, risks, decisions, and required support

• Work closely with product management, business development, sales, operations, and engineering to align project execution with customer and business priorities

• Help establish and improve project management processes, tools, templates, and workflows

• Experience working with cross-functional engineering, operations, or manufacturing teams

• Understanding of semiconductor, photonics, electronics, or other hardware product development and manufacturing processes

• Ability to develop and manage project schedules, risks, action items, dependencies, and deliverables

• Support continuous improvement by capturing project lessons learned and applying them to future programs Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Strong problem-solving, written communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills

• Abil…