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3rd Party IP Engineering Program Manager

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Cupertino, California; Austin, Texas; Beaverton, Oregon)$144.6k - $263.8kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role responsible for orchestrating integration of external custom IPs for Apple’s silicon, ensuring technical, quality, and schedule requirements are met. Collaborates with Apple engineering teams, operations, legal, and 3rd party vendors to coordinate releases, drive issue resolution, and validate IPs in ASIC/SOC/VLSI designs.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with silicon engineering teams to coordinate high-level milestones for IP development and integration
  • Ability to multi-task and manage IPs across several projects simultaneously
  • Drive resolution of technical and post-silicon issues between cross-functional teams and external IP providers
  • Planning and tracking silicon validation schedule, testplan reviews and spec signoff with cross-functional teams
  • Coordinate weekly meetings with vendors and IP consumers to resolve technical/schedule issues
  • Assemble regular project status presentations for cross-functional executive reviews
  • Focused issue reporting, bug tracking and communication of program risks and status
  • Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and facilitate conflict resolution

Qualifications

  • BS in engineering field and 3+ years of experience in Analog/Digital Circuit Design or working with Analog and/or Digital IP integration in ASIC/SOC/VLSI Designs or similar experience
  • Good knowledge of the IP development process, tools/flows and methodologies, silicon validation of the IP and the life cycle in a SOC
  • 1+ years in Technical Program or Project Management, or Functional Management experience
  • Strong team player and creative thinker who can lead technical teams, cross-functional groups, and vendors to meet aggressive development schedules
  • Experience working with IP vendors or IP providers
  • Great leadership and communication skills (Executive communication)
  • Experience working in a dynamic engineering environment, strong at multi-tasking, conflict resolution and real-time crisis management
  • Post Silicon Debug skills
  • Driven, motivated and comfortable with fast paced schedule driven environment
  • Ready to participate in technical discussions, ask probing questions, and work with the team to pull together scoping, schedules, and solutions to issues
  • Driven to continuously improve processes, methodologies and tools
  • Programming language experience (Python, Perl)
  • Familiarity with project management tools (Confluence, JIRA)

Skills

Required:Analogue and/or Digital IP development and integrationTechnical Program ManagementVendor / IP provider collaborationExecutive communicationConfluence, JIRA
Nice to have:Python, Perl

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder programs through stock plans
Last updated Jul 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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