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CPU Pre-Silicon Engineering Program Manager

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (Cupertino, CA)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineering Program Manager for CPU pre-silicon development, embedded with the CPU design team to drive full program lifecycle from spec through tapeout and post-silicon support, coordinating across CPU architecture, logic design, verification, physical design, DFT, debug, SoC, software, and system teams.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the development of CPU IP across several programs.
  • Developing and negotiating project schedules and deliverables.
  • Driving regular project meetings to focus the team on upcoming landmarks and to identify and resolve technical issues, pulling in the relevant experts and multi-functional stakeholders when necessary.
  • Identifying risks and dependencies, generating mitigation plans and ensuring appropriate steps are taken to resolve.
  • Communicating program status and blocking issues to multi-functional teams and different levels of management, as appropriate.

Qualifications

  • BS + 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Proven Silicon development experience in Design, Verification, Implementation, Physical Design, DFT or silicon validation.
  • Proven CPU development experience.
  • Established technical leadership and/or project management experience.
  • Strong communication and executive presentation skills.
  • Strong time and task leadership skills with consistent attention to detail.
  • Strong organization skills to organize self and the team’s execution.
  • Technical depth in one or more areas (architecture, logic, verification, physical design) and sufficient knowledge of others to understand tradeoffs and challenge the team.
  • Can work together across multiple sites and multi-functionally throughout the entire organization.
  • Able to build trust and lead through influence.

Skills

Required:Project managementCross-functional coordinationCommunication
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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