Custom Silicon Management Engineering Program Manager (Sensors)
Apple
Operations
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Mar 20, 2025
Summary
Posted:
Role Number:200596074
Our team at Apple is looking for design engineering professionals with strong leadership, managerial courage, and communication abilities to ensure that our 3rd-party developed analog/mixed-signal and sensors Custom Silicon designs meet the technical, quality and schedule requirements for all of our hardware products. In this position, our team represents Apple in front of our custom silicon vendors all over the world! Custom Silicon Management Engineering Program Managers are responsible for driving the full Silicon development cycle from initial concept, vendor selection, implementation, validation, and qualification through ramp for mass production. Deep technical knowledge and effective program/project management skills are applied to drive silicon program schedules and resolve technical issues that enable timely silicon delivery to Apple products. Additionally, forging strategic relationships with internal and external leadership is needed to influence prioritization, lead issue resolution, communicate status/issues/next steps and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Are you ready to join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple products?
Description
You will work as part of the Engineering Program Management team responsible for driving technical issue resolution to enable timely silicon to meet daring product schedules and driving internal processes to guarantee high-quality Silicon definition and timely execution. In addition, you will also: - Drive silicon issues to closure demonstrating and leading multi-functional teams internally and externally in areas such as Design, Modeling, Embedded Firmware, Verification, Validation, Process Technology, Packaging, Quality, Failure Analysis, System Hardware and Core Software - Focus design teams on meeting commitments, achievements and unblocking technical issues by pulling together the right multi-functional technical specialists to resolve issues using data-driven decisions - Drive technical sessions with suppliers to supervise and follow up on issues/partner concerns - Highly focused on issue reporting, bug tracking, and communication of program risks and status
Minimum Qualifications
- BS + 10 years of relevant experience
- ASIC, SoC, MEMS, or Sensing Design Flow experience
- Engineering experience with analog, digital, and/or mixed Signal design flow
- Ability to travel internationally, willing to travel frequently to vendor sites, as needed — approximately 10% of the time
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- MS + 5 years of technical Program or Project Management experience
- Experience on MEMS, Touch, ALS, Optical sensing Design Flow
- Experience with vendor relationships, influencing external decision making and prioritization
- Passion for driving continuous improvements in flows, communication and organization
- Understanding of hardware and software integration challenges
- Experience working in a dynamic fast-paced & cross-functional engineering environment and real-time crisis leadership skills
- Strong desire to own/drive project development using well defined metrics & methodologies
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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