SW Engineering Program Manager

Lattice Overview

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry.

Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Job Description

Lattice is looking for a highly motivated and experienced SW Program Manager to drive SW Tools deliverables for complex FPGA programs. The role will require close collaboration with global teams in multiple disciplines (Silicon devices, Soft-IP and business teams) to successfully manage the scope, schedule, risk, reporting, issue resolution and resources to deliver the best user interface for our customers. The qualified candidate will drive cross functional engagements involving multi-functional teams to establish clear alignment between requirements and engineering priorities, and to deliver successful programs.

They will employ the best program management practices to facilitate prioritization, planning, stakeholder management and ensure timely commitment delivery. The ideal candidate should have a strong passion to build collaborative relationships with stakeholders and champion collective success.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive internal execution of the software tools team, ensuring the release goals are delivered with high quality and on time
• Partner with engineering teams to translate high-level requirements into clear specifications for compilers, SDKs, and runtime environments.
• Define and track KPIs for adoption, performance, and customer satisfaction
• Improve developer efficiency via process improvement and good practices
• Drive the execution of Lattice’s FPGA SW Tools for internal and external customer support.
• Engage regularly with global stakeholders (Silicon, SoftIP, Operations, Marketing) to drive execution, issue resolution and successfully complete programs per plan
• Discuss and align on program roles, responsibilities, metrics, requirements and deliverables
• Work with engineering teams to translate product requirements/requests into a working plan
• Manage schedule, scope, resource, risks and reporting to drive towards successful delivery
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution per requirements
• Provide regular communication to key stakeholders (executive leadership team) to ensure expectations, updates and decisions are aligned

Candidate profile

• BS in EE/CE/CS or similar with 7+ years of experience in the Tech industry. At least 3 of those years should be in a Program Management role.
• Experienced in EDA or FPGA Software tool flow
• Experienced in product lifecycle management for SW and Soft-IP and knowledge of SW support for integrated circuit, packaging, validation and qualification of Silicon devices
• Experienced in driving cross‑functional teams to deliver projects with multiple internal/external dependencies and constraints
• Experienced in driving security compliance and FuSa certification a plus.
• Experienced in driving alignment and accountability in program requirements and collaboration
• Track record in delivering products timely with high quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• PMP and knowledge/experience in FPGAs is a plus