Responsibilities — What You Will Own
1) Chief of Staff to Head of Engineering
• Drive operational cadence: engineering all hands, staff meetings, agenda/material prep, tech talks, university engagements, action follow-through, and leadership syncs.
• Frame and resolve high-leverage decisions — proactively surface blockers (technical, operational, organizational) before they escalate.
• Manage escalations and organizational friction — diagnose root causes, coordinate resolution paths, and ensure durable fixes.
• Partner cross-functionally with Hardware, Product, and Quality teams to ensure clarity of communication, alignment on priorities, and disciplined follow-through on decisions.
• Support org design, headcount planning, and hiring prioritization for engineering teams.
• Maintain alignment across functions through clear messaging and communication, validate exitance and validation of processes
• Navigate org dynamics, build trust, and constructively challenge assumptions; maintain psychological safety.
• Support the head of engineering with administrative and org related activities
2) Lead ASIC Tape out Management (Silicon Programs)
• Status management — collect and track status across functions contributing to ASIC tapeouts.
• Milestone tracking — maintain methodology checklists and boundary agreements to ensure schedule adherence.
• IP and vendor tracking — own visibility into IP deliveries, version inventory, vendor issues, and escalation loops.
• Quality & documentation — monitor quality KPIs, ensure engineering documentation completeness.
• Requirements tracking — ensure PRDs/features are captured, tracked, baselined.
• Resource monitoring — track compute, hardware, storage consumption and thresholds.
• Internal reporting — generate status reporting for Silicon Engineering leadership.
3) Influence Without Authority
• Drive cross-engineering outcomes through credibility, clarity, and follow-through — not hierarchy.
• Create order in ambiguous spaces; shape scope where it is undefined.