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AMS Validation Manager

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (San Diego, CA)$225.6k - $338.4kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Experienced hands-on manager to lead the AMS Silicon Validation team in San Diego, delivering robust silicon validation while developing talent, expanding engineering capability, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration. Partners with validation leaders across multiple sites to execute integrated AMS IP validation programs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the San Diego AMS Silicon Validation team by building a high-performing engineering organization through technical leadership, coaching, mentoring, talent development, and recruitment.
  • Remain hands-on in silicon validation by personally contributing to validation planning, silicon bring-up, characterization, complex debug, stress-to-fail methodologies, root-cause analysis, failure analysis, and validation execution for advanced mixed-signal IPs.
  • Lead validation execution from first silicon through production readiness, ensuring high-quality technical execution, timely issue resolution, and continuous improvement across multiple product generations.
  • Partner closely with Design, Architecture, RTL, Verification, and validation teams across multiple sites to successfully deliver complex silicon programs on aggressive schedules.
  • Build a collaborative engineering culture where engineers across multiple sites operate as one integrated validation organization, openly sharing knowledge, leveraging one another's expertise, and jointly delivering program success.
  • Develop a technically balanced validation team capable of independently owning assigned AMS IPs, from foundational analog IPs to complex high-speed subsystem validations, while collaborating seamlessly with other sites on larger multi-site programs.
  • Foster a culture where technical decisions are driven by engineering expertise, program priorities, and shared accountability rather than organizational boundaries, enabling engineers to both lead and contribute across multiple validation programs.
  • Collaborate with validation leadership to distribute technical ownership and engineering capacity across sites, enabling balanced workload, scalable execution, and effective cross-site support throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • Build strong working relationships with cross-site validation leaders, proactively aligning technical ownership, execution responsibilities, priorities, and engineering resources to maximize organizational effectiveness.
  • Establish resilient cross-site execution models that provide timely engineering support during critical silicon milestones, including periods requiring continuous validation coverage.
  • Drive continuous improvement in validation methodologies, laboratory infrastructure, automation, AI-assisted validation, robotic test systems, data analytics, and engineering productivity.
  • Manage multiple concurrent silicon programs by balancing technical execution, engineering priorities, resource planning, schedules, risks, and delivery commitments.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor or Master degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
  • 12+ years of experience in silicon validation, mixed-signal design, analog design, or related semiconductor engineering.
  • 3+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience leading validation or mixed-signal engineering teams.
  • Strong hands-on experience in silicon bring-up, characterization, validation planning, complex debug, failure analysis, and validation of advanced mixed-signal or high-speed interface IPs.
  • Proven ability to coach, mentor, and develop engineers while building high-performing technical teams.
  • Experience validating advanced mixed-signal or high-speed interfaces, such as, SerDes, PCIe, UCIe, PLL, Ethernet, or similar semiconductor technologies.
  • Strong understanding of analog and mixed-signal circuit operation, high-speed measurements, signal integrity, jitter analysis, equalization, and advanced silicon validation methodologies.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with experience working effectively across geographically distributed engineering organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to remain technically engaged while balancing engineering execution, people leadership, and program delivery.
  • Experience with validation automation, Python-based validation frameworks, AI-assisted validation workflows, robotic test systems, machine learning, and data analytics applied to silicon validation.
  • Demonstrated success leading engineering teams within a matrixed organization, including the ability to influence without direct authority, establish trust across organizations, and build collaborative partnerships across geographically distributed teams.
  • Experience expanding engineering capability by developing teams that successfully own both foundational IP validation and highly complex subsystem validation.
  • Proven track record of recruiting, developing, mentoring, and retaining high-caliber engineering talent.
  • Experience building collaborative engineering organizations where technical leadership, ownership, and execution are aligned to maximize overall program success rather than organizational boundaries.
  • Demonstrated success driving engineering excellence, organizational capability growth, continuous improvement, and engineering innovation in a fast-paced semiconductor development environment.

Skills

Required:Silicon bring-upValidation leadership

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
  • employee stock programs including discretionary RSUs and stock purchase plan
Last updated Jul 31, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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