Wireless SoC Silicon Validation Engineering Program Manager
- Location
- San Diego, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 13 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Silicon bring-up and validation or FPGA prototyping
- SoC development
- Program management across multi-functional engineering teams
- Risk management and mitigation
- Issue reporting and bug tracking
Also useful
- Silicon, FPGA, or system validation experience
- Wireless connectivity standards knowledge
- Executive-level presentation and communication
- Real-time crisis management
- Technical program management project ownership
Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products.
The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product!
Come to Apple and work within a team to deliver a broad range of wireless technologies. This is an extraordinary opportunity to engage with the latest technologies and supply to groundbreaking Apple products year after year. You will go beyond the industry norm and demonstrate creativity in problem solving, ability to think dynamically and outside of standard convention, and adapt quickly to new technical areas.
About the role
Apple seeks a technical leader to program manage our groundbreaking wireless connectivity chipsets to meet performance, quality and schedule requirements for Apple products. You will be responsible for multi-functional team coordination, communication and representation across the wireless systems and silicon engineering ecosystem from concept to production.
Technical background in silicon bring-up and validation or FPGA prototyping will be key to your success in this role. Ideally, you will also have project management experience in some aspect of silicon or systems validation. You will work in a multidimensional engineering environment where sophisticated multi-tasking skills and real-time crisis management are all desired strengths.
Responsibilities
- Work on a Program Management team responsible for driving technical issue resolution to enable timely silicon to meet daring product schedules of groundbreaking silicon.
- Track program landmarks for all phases of silicon and systems validation: Pre-silicon development, prototyping, silicon bring-up, system bring-up and production ramp.
- Interface and drive silicon issues within multi-functional teams including Design, Systems Engineering, Validation, Technology, FW/SW, and Test engineering.
- Drive technical sessions with multi-functional partners to supervise and follow up issues/concerns
- Align with multi-functional teams to deliver silicon configurations and ensure smooth bring-up to meet product schedules.
- Drive risk management and mitigation strategies to ensure program delivery.
- Focused issue reporting, bug tracking, and communication of program risks and status.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS in technical field and 10+ years relevant industry experience.
- Previous SoC development experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Silicon, FPGA or system validation experience.
- Knowledge of wireless connectivity standards preferred.
- Excellent communication, presentation, social, and leadership skills.
- Ability to tailor information to the right audience, including executive management.
- Experience working in a dynamic multi-functional engineering environment, strong at multi-tasking, and real-time crisis management and leadership skills.
- Expertise owning and driving project development/technical program management.
From Apple's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 27, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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