Product Engineer - Custom Silicon Management

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 296,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Relocation assistance

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Product Engineer for Custom Silicon Management to drive IC component readiness for mass production and to analyze failure modes in analog and digital ICs.

You will lead characterization, work with design, process and test teams, and support system validation and mass production approvals. This role involves about 20% travel and sits within the Silicon Technologies group, delivering high-performance, power-efficient SoCs for Apple devices.

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 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

Skills

Data analysis

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ATE characterization

Test data analysis

Statistical analysis tools

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

Imagine yourself at the center of our hardware development effort! We collaborate with all teams, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. As a key member of the team responsible for the delivery of high-quality, on-time silicon, you will:-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.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $166,600 and $296,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits
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