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Company Overview
Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.
We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.
And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.
We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.
Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.
Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.
With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
Join us in building the power foundation of the future!
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), Software, to lead complex programs involving application-level software across edge and cloud platforms. This role drives cross-functional execution across software engineering, firmware, hardware, product, quality assurance, and system integration teams. You will own program scope, schedules, risk management, and delivery quality across multi-release roadmaps, ensuring alignment and successful outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Lead cross-functional collaboration across software engineering, firmware development, hardware engineering, product management, QA, and system integration teams.
- Drive execution of embedded and application-level software development programs from planning through delivery.
- Own program scope, schedules, and resource allocation, ensuring alignment with timeline, quality, and budget expectations.
- Communicate program status, milestones, and risks to executive leadership and stakeholders with clarity and transparency.
- Coordinate software feature planning, milestone tracking, and integration timelines alongside hardware and systems teams.
- Identify, track, and mitigate risks related to software dependencies, release timelines, and cross-functional integration.
- Ensure visibility into cross-team dependencies that impact software development.
- Partner with product teams to define software requirements, roadmaps, and success metrics aligned with business goals.
- Monitor program costs and resourcing, identifying opportunities for efficiency and optimization.
- Improve program management processes, tools, and best practices to enhance execution, scalability, and transparency.
- Support release and validation processes in collaboration with QA and release engineering, ensuring adequate testing coverage and timely issue resolution.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management or engineering leadership roles.
- Strong experience managing complex software and/or firmware programs across multiple teams and timelines.
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and firmware development practices.
- Experience working in organizations that build integrated systems across hardware, embedded firmware, and application software.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and requirements.
- Hands-on experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) and Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban).
- Preferred: Experience with GitHub, AWS, observability tools, and Python.
- Willingness to travel up to 20%, including international travel.
Tools & Platforms (Preferred Exposure):
- Planning & Collaboration: Jira, Confluence, Scrum/Kanban
- Code & CI/CD: GitHub (Projects, Actions), release pipelines
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (IAM, EC2, ECS, Lambda basics)
- Observability: Metrics, logs, and tracing tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Sentry)
- Scripting & Automation: Python for data wrangling, reporting, and lightweight tooling
Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options.
Salary: $160,000-$190,000/annual DOE and location
Pay Disclosure & Benefits
Compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.
The benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United States.
- Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
- Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
- Commuter Benefits
- 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)
Singapore-based employees receive benefits in accordance with local government provisions.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Amperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Amperesand is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
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