Job Details

Role Number: 200636567-0836

Summary

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices.

Manage a team responsible for developing software frameworks, tools, and tests for Silicon Validation of Apple SOCs across all product families. You’ll collaborate with various organizations, including architecture, design, design verification, system, software and security teams, to create comprehensive content that thoroughly validates and stress-tests our designs, ensuring correct operation from functional, performance, and security perspectives.

Description

You will be leading a team of engineers and engineering managers responsible for bringup, validation and debug of various IP blocks and SOC subsystems in pre-silicon and silicon phases of chip development. Starting from concept and architectural specification review, guide the team to come up with validation test plans, develop and deliver required software frameworks and tests ranging from bare-metal and synthetic RTOS environments to full-featured OS, drivers and applications. Drive the team to bringup and comprehensively validate the SOC in system, prioritizing new features in time for next silicon tapeout.

Engage in the technical details of all aspects of the position and organization, providing technical guidance internally while accurately representing the team with executives and partner organizations. Build and cultivate relationships needed to converge on the best solutions. Promote Apple culture while cultivating a team culture that's aligned to business needs, developing the managers and engineers across your organization. Process and prioritize work across multiple concurrent projects through proactive and real-time assessments and detailed planning.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS and 20+ years of relevant industry experience

• Experience managing teams of 15+ engineers

• Experience with project planning and resource allocation

• Demonstrated experience managing software engineering teams

• Strong computer architecture and computer science foundation

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with multiple programming and scripting languages (e.g., C, C++, Python)

• Experience as a software engineer with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and engineering best practices

• Experience with silicon or platform bringup, validation and debug

• Demonstrated ability to grow and develop managers and senior technical contributors

• Ability to work effectively across functions and organizations

• Ability to present plans, status and issues to executive leadership

• Track record of driving process improvements.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

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