SOC Productization Engineering Program Manager

Austin,Texas,United States

Hardware

Do you have silicon/chip DFT/Product/Test Engineering background? We would like to take someone to the next step in their career and use their technical skills in a multi-functional leadership role. If you are seeking to contribute to state-of-the-art silicon technologies used in Apple products, come join us! You'll be at the center of the action on new custom silicon product development for Apple's groundbreaking products! In this highly visible role, you are responsible for working with the Product Engineering/Test/DFT teams to ensure successful launch of new products and mass production support of high volume SoCs powering Apple’s world-class product lines. As an EPM within the HWTech organization, you will be responsible for planning, implementation, and ongoing support of silicon from the productization standpoint. This links closely to managing build schedules, Test Program releases, functional/structural testing, LVCC optimization and process maturity. The environment is dynamic and constantly evolving; flexibility is a requirement. The ability to prioritize and react quickly is essential. The position includes working closely with multiple internal Engineering and Material teams. The goal is to provide engineering support for the development and validation of groundbreaking silicon material, spanning engineering design phases through production release and ramp.

Key Qualifications

• Requires SOC/VLSI Chip Design/Validation, DFT or Product Engineering, with Technical Program Management/ Engineering Management experience.

• Background in SoCs in both NPI and high volume environment.

• Leadership with a collaborative attitude.

• Excellent communications & presentation skills

• Dedicated and highly motivated

• Ability to understand and extract action plans from sophisticated technical discussions and translate into succinct messaging for multi-functional and executive status reporting.

• Ability to connect the dots and identify gaps in process, planning and propose mitigations

• Experience working in a dynamic multi-disciplined engineering environment, strong at multi-tasking, and real-time crisis management.

• Excellent debugging skills. Must demonstrate ability to drive resolution of critical problems under pressure.

• Strong desire to own/drive project development using well defined metrics.

• Comfortable with fast paced schedule driven development.

• Experience working with Foundry / OSATs / external vendors.

• Ability to function and progress actions in ambiguous situations

Description

• You will have key responsibilities that directly impact Apple’s product line success. - Interface and drive closure of critical silicon issues with cross-functional teams to enable successful SoC mass production ramp. - Enable tight collaboration between DFT, Product Engineering/Test/Quality, Silicon Validation, and Systems teams during NPI to finalize SoC performance targets and screen requirements. - Drive simple and effective processes from “lessons learned” to avoid quality and execution issues early in development cycle. - Disciplined issue tracking, organizing and reporting of program risks, status, and options for resolution to executive management.

Education & Experience

BS/BA + 10 years of relevant experience

Additional Requirements

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