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3rd Party IP Engineering Program Manager

Apple· Hardware Technologies
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Hybrid (Beaverton, OR / Austin, TX / Cupertino, CA)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Join Apple's Hardware Technologies organization to orchestrate the integration of external custom IPs for cutting-edge chip designs, coordinating cross-functional teams, vendors, and IP providers to ensure technical, quality, and schedule requirements are met for Apple products.

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 10+ 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
  • Strong knowledge of the IP development process, tools/flows and methodologies, silicon validation of the IP and the life cycle in a SOC
  • Advanced skills 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:Analog/Digital Circuit DesignIP development processTechnical Program/Project Management
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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