Product Engineer - Custom Silicon Management

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Product Engineer for Custom Silicon Management to drive IC component readiness for mass production and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

You will analyze failure modes in analog and digital ICs and work with vendors to ensure quality, reliability, and robust production processes. The role emphasizes data-driven characterization, test planning, and cross-team communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with ATE characterization and collected data from test programs.
• Experience analyzing Analog and digital IC evaluation reports.

Responsibilities

• Review product development plan and drive execution including characterization, correlation, GR&R.
• Perform data analysis, characterization, and fault isolation to determine root causes.
• Collaborate with design, process, and test teams to ensure readiness for mass production.
• Define production screening guard-band specifications based on design intent.
• Execute yield and correlation analyses across mass data sets.

Skills

ATE characterization

Analog IC evaluation

Digital IC evaluation

Statistical data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Product Engineer - Custom Silicon Management

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. We are seeking a dynamic CSM Product Engineer to join the growing, goal driven Product Quality and Reliability team. In this role, you will drive IC component readiness for mass production. You'll analyze and tackle problems by identifying failure modes of affected material as it relates to analog and digital ICs. This Product engineer will support our Custom Silicon Management team and build strong working relationships with cross functional teams.

Description

• Lead efforts that develop, integrate, characterize, and test devices.
• Work with external vendors to ensure innovative practices, methodologies and processes are in place to produce quality results.
• Support multi-functional engineering teams for system validation and mass production approval.
• This role involves approximately 20% travel.

Responsibilities

• Review product development plan and drive execution including such as characterization, correlation, GR&R, etc.
• Perform data analysis, characterization, and fault isolation to determine root cause of issues
• Work with design, process, and test engine
• Define and finalize production screening guard-band specifications based upon design intent and characterization results
• Perform statistical data analysis on mass data sets
• Implement yield analyses and correlation analyses for all levels of tests, pareto building, statistics, etc.
• Define characterization plan and generate characterization report

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with ATE characterization and collected data from test programs.
• Experience analyzing Analog and digital IC evaluation reports.

Preferred Qualifications

• Analog and digital IC high volume manufacturing experience.
• Experience running statistical data analysis.
• Experience working with high volume product yield management.
• Ability to define and direct design of experiments for root cause determination.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work with internal team members and external suppliers.
• Prior product engineering experience for sophisticated system designs.

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