CAD Engineering Program Manager

Apple, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking an inventive Engineering Program Manager to drive Silicon Engineering CAD projects across infrastructure, data center builds, and OS planning.

You will coordinate with CAD, Infrastructure, Design and Technology teams to craft a detailed plan, identify blockers, and align work across multiple parallel projects and datacenters. Responsibilities include owning schedules, driving weekly leadership meetings, and managing both daily and long-term program tasks.

Qualifications

• BS degree in engineering required.
• 3+ years of proven experience in program management or CAD/EDA environments.
• Experience coordinating across CAD, infrastructure, design and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive high-level project milestones and unblock blockers by coordinating multi-functional experts.
• Run and track project schedules and ensure timely execution.
• Manage daily and long-term project management tasks and resourcing planning.
• Lead planning discussions for new projects and allocate ownership and resources.
• Conduct weekly schedule and update meetings with upper management.
• Ensure clear communication of schedules and dependencies between CAD/Design/Infrastructure teams.

Skills

Program management

Scheduling

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Education

BS degree in engineering

Tools

Gantt charts

Job description

Apple's Hardware Technology Engineering Program Management Team is looking for an inventive, high-energy Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to support the Silicon Engineering CAD organization! In this all encompassing role, we will apply your technical skills to drive the technical execution of projects across a myriad of topics, including and not limited to: infrastructure of data center builds, storage roll-outs, operating system planning, coupled with supporting front-end and back-end silicon CAD design flows. The candidate will use program management abilities to own schedules and resolve issues across multiple projects, technology nodes and datacenters. By focusing on all aspects of a silicon project, we will work directly together with CAD, Infrastructure teams, Design teams and Technology teams to craft a project plan, identify/resolve blockers, and align CAD team work across multiple parallel projects and Datacenters ensuring all requirements are met!

• Own and drive high-level achievements by focusing the CAD team on meeting near-term landmarks and unblock technical issues by pulling together the relevant multi-functional technical specialists.
• Run and track project schedules by driving high-level achievement execution in a multifaceted core technology team.
• Responsible for daily and long-term project management tasks.
• Participate in early planning of new projects as well as resourcing and scheduling.
• Assist with planning new project schedules, assign ownership, plan for right resource metrics and track them diligently to completion.
• Drive weekly schedule and communication meetings with upper management.
• Ensure effective project schedule and dependency communication with the dependent teams (CAD/Design/Infrastructure/technology/etc).
• Rolling up your sleeves and doing what it takes to things done.

Minimum Qualifications

BS + 3 years of proven experience.

Chip design and/or CAD flow knowledge required.

Experience in any of the following: Front-end (Logic design, Synthesis, DV, or DFT) or Back-end (PNR, STA, LVS, DRC, Extraction) CAD Tools/Flows.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in engineering environments related to EDA or chip design

Experience with at least one of the following areas: Working on Compute, Storage and Network equipment deployed in Large HPC Datacenter OR understands nuances related to EDA tools, licensing and operating system dependencies

Program/project management experience working in Silicon projects/CAD Projects, or a combination of Program Management and CAD design experience.

Proficient with Gantt chart and Program Management tracking tools

Excellent communication, interpersonal, collaboration and leadership skills

Self-motivated and phenomenal teammate with ability to encourage team members.

Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience

Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of uncertainty