CAD Engineering Program Manager
Apple Cupertino, California, United States
Computers and Electronics Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
The Engineering Program Manager will drive technical execution across silicon CAD projects, including infrastructure builds and design flow support. They are responsible for managing project schedules, resolving technical blockers, and aligning cross-functional teams to meet project landmarks.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years of experience in chip design or CAD flows. Proficiency in front-end or back-end CAD tools and strong project management skills are required.
Full description
Apple's Hardware Technology Engineering Program Management Team is looking for an inventive, high-energy Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to support the Silicon Engineering CAD organization! In this all encompassing role, we will apply your technical skills to drive the technical execution of projects across a myriad of topics, including and not limited to: infrastructure of data center builds, storage roll-outs, operating system planning, coupled with supporting front-end and back-end silicon CAD design flows. The candidate will use program management abilities to own schedules and resolve issues across multiple projects, technology nodes and datacenters. By focusing on all aspects of a silicon project, we will work directly together with CAD, Infrastructure teams, Design teams and Technology teams to craft a project plan, identify/resolve blockers, and align CAD team work across multiple parallel projects and Datacenters ensuring all requirements are met!
Description
- Own and drive high-level achievements by focusing the CAD team on meeting near-term landmarks and unblock technical issues by pulling together the relevant multi-functional technical specialists.
- Run and track project schedules by driving high-level achievement execution in a multifaceted core technology team.
- Responsible for daily and long-term project management tasks.
- Participate in early planning of new projects as well as resourcing and scheduling.
- Assist with planning new project schedules, assign ownership, plan for right resource metrics and track them diligently to completion.
- Drive weekly schedule and communication meetings with upper management.
- Ensure effective project schedule and dependency communication with the dependent teams (CAD/Design/Infrastructure/technology/etc).
- Rolling up your sleeves and doing what it takes to things done.
Minimum Qualifications
BS + 3 years of proven experience.
Chip design and/or CAD flow knowledge required.
Experience in any of the following: Front-end (Logic design, Synthesis, DV, or DFT) or Back-end (PNR, STA, LVS, DRC, Extraction) CAD Tools/Flows.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in engineering environments related to EDA or chip design
Experience with at least one of the following areas: Working on Compute, Storage and Network equipment deployed in Large HPC Datacenter OR understands nuances related to EDA tools, licensing and operating system dependencies
Program/project management experience working in Silicon projects/CAD Projects, or a combination of Program Management and CAD design experience.
Proficient with Gantt chart and Program Management tracking tools
Excellent communication, interpersonal, collaboration and leadership skills
Self-motivated and phenomenal teammate with ability to encourage team members.
Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience
Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of uncertainty
