Chief of Staff to VP, HPC Hardware Engineering

Job Level: Director or Sr Director (nonexecutive)
Reporting to: VP & Head of Hardware Engineering
Location: Austin TX
Organization: Hardware Engineering (HWEN)
Scope: Global execution organization with sites in Japan Vietnam and India; horizontal functions including Back-End Engineering Design Enablement Design Verification Functional Safety Security and related disciplines

Role Overview

The Chief of Staff to the VP of HPC Hardware Engineering (HWEN) is a senior executioneffectiveness and informationflow leader who enables the Head of HWEN to run a complex global hardware organization with clarity speed and discipline.

The Chief of Staffs primary objective is to ensure that accurate and relevant information is accessible at the appropriate level of detail and delivered precisely when requiredacross all sites functions execution metrics innovation initiatives and cost considerations. At present a considerable amount of leadership time is dedicated to monitoring status updates reconciling inconsistent data sources and preparing materials for decision-making.

The Chief of Staff designs and runs the information governance and insight system for HWENstreamlining inputs standardizing outputs maintaining an accurate pulse of the organization and ensuring the VP receives decisionready synthesis not raw noise. This is not an administrative or EA role; it is a senior leadership partner role focused on execution clarity and organizational health.

Key Responsibilities

Information Flow & Decision Readiness (Primary Focus)

• Design and implement a standardized information flow across all HWEN sites (Japan Vietnam India) and horizontal functions to eliminate fragmented reporting and multiple versions of truth
• Establish consistent definitions templates and health indicators for execution (milestones readiness risks quality dependencies resourcing and cost signals)
• Convert complex bottomup execution data into clear decisionready insights for the VP (what changed why it matters options recommendation)
• Ensure leadership reviews focus on decisions and interventionsnot status collection

Execution Governance & Operating Rhythm

• Own the HWEN execution cadence including leadership reviews tapeout readiness checkpoints crosssite syncs and risk reviews
• Drive alignment on KPIs and execution metrics across functions and geographies
• Surface risks tradeoffs and crossfunctional dependencies earlyespecially those that threaten schedule quality or tapeout readiness
• Maintain a single trusted rollup view of execution health across all programs

CrossSite and CrossFunctional Integration

• Act as the integration point across sites and horizontal functions to improve coordination handoffs and decision speed
• Identify recurring friction points (unclear ownership inconsistent readiness criteria handoff breakdowns reporting noise) and drive standard ways of working
• Ensure issues are escalated with clarity context and ownershipnot as late surprises

Innovation Improvements and Initiatives (Within HWEN)

• Track and govern HWENs innovation and improvement initiatives (design methodology upgrades automation flow improvements productivity and quality initiatives)
• Ensure initiative work is visible prioritized and measured
• Help leadership make deliberate tradeoffs between tapeoutcritical execution and longerterm improvement work

Executive Communication & Leadership Support

• Prepare the VP of HWEN for engagements with the SVP and broader leadership by providing a crisp execution narrative top risks mitigations and decisions needed
• Synthesize technical and operational inputs into executiveready materials (dashboards onepagers review decks)
• Ensure consistent messaging and clarity across the HWEN leadership team

Organizational Pulse Judgment and Discretion

• Maintain a continuous pulse on organizational health including morale capacity strain friction points and execution stress
• Bring early signals to the VP with context and optionsbefore issues become systemic
• Handle sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment

Qualifications :

Required

• 10 years of experience in semiconductors or adjacent deeptech industries with strong exposure to engineeringled executionintensive organizations
• Proven experience in roles such as Chief of Staff Engineering Operations Technical Program Leadership Business Operations or Strategy & Operations supporting senior engineering leaders
• Demonstrated ability to build information systems and operating mechanisms that improve execution clarity and leadership decisionmaking
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills; able to turn complex messy inputs into clear insights
• Ability to influence without authority across global matrixed teams
• Executivelevel written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

• Familiarity with hardware development and digital design execution through tapeout including typical risks dependencies and readiness gates
• Experience working across multisite global engineering organizations
• Experience building dashboards KPIs or execution governance frameworks
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree or equivalent demonstrated experience

Additional Information :

Success Measures (What Great Looks Like)

• The VP of HWEN receives timely decisionready information without needing to chase status
• Execution health is visible consistent and predictable across sites and functions
• Risks and crossfunctional issues are surfaced early with clear ownership and mitigation paths
• HWEN innovation and improvement initiatives are tracked prioritized and measured without destabilizing tapeout execution
• Leadership time shifts from information gathering to highleverage decisions and interventions
• The HWEN organization operates with greater clarity alignment and trust in its execution data

Role Boundaries

This role does not function as an Executive Assistant or general administrative role. It does not own calendar management meeting scheduling or daytoday task tracking. Its value is in information flow governance insight and judgmentnot logistics.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time