Senior Manager - Silicon Debug and Validation

Hardware FYI; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Austin’s Silicon Technologies group seeks a leader to design and validate next-generation processor SoC. You’ll manage bringup and validation of debug features and tools, and triage critical failures requiring a blend of software, hardware and silicon expertise.

You’ll collaborate with Si Validation, Software Engineering, and Si Design to accelerate issue resolution across product families, ensuring high-performance, power-efficient processors powering Apple devices.

Qualifications

• Experience bringing up and validating debug features.
• Triage failures across software, hardware and silicon.
• Collaboration with multiple groups to accelerate issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead bringup and validation of debug features and tools.
• Triage failures requiring software, hardware and silicon expertise.
• Collaborate with Si Validation, Software Engineering, and Si Design to speed up root-cause analysis.

Skills

Bringup

Validation

Team leadership

Debug tooling

Software expertise

Hardware expertise

Silicon expertise

Tools

Debug tools

Si test benches

Job description

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.

Manage a team responsible for functions including bringup and validation of debug features and tools; triage of failures requiring a combination of software, hardware and Si expertise; and Si validation and characterization leveraging workloads running on internal software builds. You'll be collaborating with a broad set of organizations including Si Validation, Software Engineering, and Si Design in order to accelerate the sourcing, triage and root cause of critical failures on Apple SOCs across all product families.