Senior Technical Project Manager

Senior Technical Project Manager Austin TX (ML)

Salary range: $140k to $160k

We are looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager with 5 years of experience to own the end-to-end manufacturing process scaling for the clients proprietary AR waveguides. Youll be the person who takes proven R&D processes and drives them from small-batch validation to high-volume production at scale working across process engineering equipment teams and manufacturing operations at one of the most innovative AR companies in the world.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end NPI process for scaling waveguide manufacturing from 25-wafer proof points to hundreds of thousands of wafers
• Drive output metrics yield targets and product quality across the entire manufacturing line not just a single process step
• Owned a tool or piece of equipment end to end design through build validation deployment
• Comfortable owning 45 concurrent tool programs at $7M$10M scale
• Coordinate across R&D process development equipment engineering and high-volume manufacturing teams to keep scaling programs on track
• Hold technical teams accountable for deliverables dig into the details and push engineers to determine when a problem is solved enough to move forward
• Manage 45 concurrent programs simultaneously bridging the gap between process invention and factory-ready production

• If from a large company where they own a single module: must demonstrate awareness of how that module fits the full system and how the system is deployed and accepted

Key Requirements

• 5 years in technical program/project management in semiconductor optics or precision manufacturing must have owned end-to-end process scaling not just a single module
• Deep sense of ownership and accountability: you own the delivery of the project not just the status report no the project failed because engineering didnt deliver mindset
• Technical curiosity and fluency to challenge process and equipment engineers on details and make informed judgment calls
• Experience scaling manufacturing processes from development/NPI into high-volume production (fab cleanroom or similar environments)
• AI-forward: actively uses AI tools to produce usable work artifacts not just dabbling but integrated into daily workflow

• Custom capital-equipment development: has built/developed a tool not just scheduled one
• FAT/SAT ownership plus Tier-1 equipment vendor and contract-manufacturer management
• Technical fluency to challenge mechanical electrical software and process engineers on high-precision automated systems
• Working understanding of the software/controls side of equipment
• Must be able to work onsite in Texas.

Miscellaneous

• Willing to spend frequent time on the manufacturing floor / in cleanrooms occasional PPE
• Target start: November 1 2026 or sooner