# Technical Programme Manager

About us Salience Labs is developing optical circuit switching technology for AI infrastructure, aimed at significantly reducing latency and cost in data centre networks. As we move towards real-world deployment, you’ll have genuine ownership of your area, working alongside a highly technical team of physicists, engineers and software specialists on one of the hardest problems in AI infrastructure. Job Overview This role sits at the centre of how Salience Labs turns complex, multi-disciplinary engineering work into delivered hardware. You will drive our technical programmes from design through tape-out, fabrication, test and qualification, keeping photonics, electronics, firmware, test and packaging teams aligned and moving towards clear milestones. We are looking for someone with an engineering background who has moved into programme or project management and still enjoys getting into the technical detail. You will be credible with engineers, able to understand the real constraints and dependencies, and able to turn them into plans, priorities and decisions that keep work moving. You will work in a fast-paced, deep-tech environment where the work spans external partners as well as

- **Id**: 4276938
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salience-labs-technical-programme-manager>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Oxford, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T17:15:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4567
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 2029320
- **Name**: Salience Labs
- **Domain**: saliencelabs.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/saliencelabs>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T20:58:29Z

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