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SoC Pre-Silicon Engineering Program Manager

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

About the role

Silicon Program Manager responsible for driving front-end silicon program schedules and resolving technical issues to enable on-time silicon for next-generation Apple products, focusing on initial architecture, specifications, design, and pre-silicon prototyping with interaction with post-silicon validation.

Responsibilities

  • Work on a Program Management team orchestrating technical issue resolution to enable on-time silicon to meet daring product schedules of groundbreaking silicon
  • Drive internal program process to guarantee high-quality silicon definition and design execution
  • Support high-level milestone execution in a fast-paced design team
  • Interface and drive silicon issues within multi-functional teams: Design, Verification, Validation, Technology, System Hardware, and Core Software
  • Focus design teams on meeting near-term achievements and unblocking technical issues by pulling together the right technical specialists to resolve the issues with data driven decision-making
  • Run dependencies across various programs, functional teams, and sites
  • Coordinate and manage with other organizations (Systems, SW, Ops)
  • Attend and drive technical sessions with suppliers/design partners to supervise and follow-up issues and customer concerns
  • Focused issue reporting, bug tracking and communication of program risks & status

Qualifications

  • BS + minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
  • Requires experience in SoC/VLSI Chip Design, ASIC Chip Design, or Technology process development
  • Experience working in a multifaceted engineering environment, strong at multi-tasking, and real-time crisis management
  • Apply LLM tools and agentic frameworks (e.g., Claude Code) to streamline PM workflows; stay current on Apple's internal AI capabilities and support teammates in adopting relevant tools and best practices.
  • Technical Program or Project Management or Functional Management experience
  • Phenomenal leadership and interpersonal skills (Executive communication)
  • Expertise owning and driving project development using well-defined metrics
  • Experience working with ASIC & VLSI design flows and leading silicon projects from concept to production
  • Programming language experience (Javascript, Python, Perl)
  • Familiarity with project management tools (Confluence, JIRA)

Skills

Required:SoC/VLSI Chip DesignProgram ManagementLeadership / Executive communication
Nice to have:Scripting / Programming Languages

Benefits

  • Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplace
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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