CAD Engineering Program Manager

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Apple's Hardware Technology Engineering Program Management Team is seeking an inventive, high-energy Engineering Program Manager to support the Silicon Engineering CAD organization. The role drives technical execution across topics including data center infrastructure builds, storage rollouts, operating system planning, and front-end and back-end silicon CAD design flows. The program manager owns schedules and resolves issues across projects, technology nodes, and data centers. Working directly with CAD, Infrastructure, Design, and Technology teams, the role develops project plans, identifies and resolves blockers, and coordinates CAD work across parallel projects and data centers to ensure requirements are met.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree and at least 3 years of proven experience.
• Knowledge of chip design and/or CAD flows.
• Experience with front-end CAD tools or flows in logic design, synthesis, design verification, or design for test; or back-end CAD tools or flows in place-and-route, static timing analysis, layout versus schematic, design rule checking, or extraction.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in engineering environments related to EDA or chip design.
• Experience working with compute, storage, and network equipment deployed in a large HPC data center, or understanding of EDA tool, licensing, and operating-system dependencies.
• Program or project management experience with silicon or CAD projects, or a combination of program management and CAD design experience.
• Proficiency with Gantt charts and program management tracking tools.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Self-motivation and the ability to be a strong teammate and encourage team members.
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the appropriate audience.
• Ability to work with rapid development cycles and remain flexible and calm amid uncertainty.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-level achievements by focusing the CAD team on near-term milestones and bringing together relevant technical specialists to unblock technical issues.
• Run and track project schedules and drive execution within a multifaceted core technology team.
• Perform daily and long-term project management tasks.
• Participate in early project planning, including resourcing and scheduling.
• Help develop project schedules, assign ownership, plan resource metrics, and track work through completion.
• Lead weekly schedule and communication meetings with upper management.
• Communicate project schedules and dependencies effectively with dependent teams, including CAD, Design, Infrastructure, and Technology.
• Take a hands-on approach to getting work completed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level