CAD Engineering Program Manager

Apple•Austin, TX

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 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 multiple projects, technology nodes, and data centers, working with CAD, Infrastructure, Design, and Technology teams to develop plans, identify and resolve blockers, and coordinate work across parallel projects.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree and at least 3 years of proven experience.
Knowledge of chip design and/or CAD flows.
Experience in front-end CAD tools or flows, such as logic design, synthesis, design verification, or design for test, or in back-end CAD tools or flows, such as place-and-route, static timing analysis, LVS, DRC, or extraction.
Experience in engineering environments related to EDA or chip design.
Experience in at least one of the following: compute, storage, and network equipment deployed in large HPC data centers; or 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-motivated, an effective teammate, and able to encourage team members.
Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the appropriate audience.
Ability to work in 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 technical specialists to unblock issues.
Run and track project schedules and drive execution within a multifaceted core technology team.
Manage daily and long-term project activities.
Participate in early project planning, including resourcing and scheduling.
Develop project schedules, assign ownership, plan resource metrics, and track work through completion.
Lead weekly schedule and communication meetings with upper management.
Communicate schedules and dependencies effectively with CAD, Design, Infrastructure, Technology, and other dependent teams.
Develop a comprehensive view of the work needed to support projects from conception through completion.
Rally teams and engineers to achieve project milestones and success.
Collaborate across organizations to align on a unified operating plan.
Predict, plan, implement, and monitor project infrastructure needs and requirements.
Monitor work, promptly highlight gaps, and mitigate risks as needed.
Accommodate project changes and update plans while maintaining schedule alignment.
Communicate project status clearly to different levels of management.
Identify and incorporate findings into execution cycles to drive continuous improvement.
Help with a variety of team tasks as needed to prevent disruption to project plans of record.