Apple

AMS Validation Manager

Apple$150K — $180K *
Technical Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 12+ years of experience in silicon validation or semiconductor engineering
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience leading validation teams
  • Extensive hands-on experience with silicon bring-up, characterization, and debugging
  • Proven ability to coach and develop engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead the AMS Silicon Validation team to deliver high-quality engineering outcomes
  • Collaborate with validation leaders across multiple sites for integrated validation efforts
  • Build and mentor a technically balanced team with ownership of assigned IPs
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence and accountability within the engineering team
  • Ensure effective communication and collaboration across organizations and distributed teams

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement
  • Engagement in cutting-edge silicon validation technologies
  • Chance to build a recognized team known for engineering excellence
  • Collaborative work environment with strong inter-team support
  • Access to advanced tools and automation in silicon validation
Full Job Description
We are seeking an experienced, hands-on manager to lead the AMS Silicon Validation team in San Diego. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for building a high-performing engineering team that delivers robust silicon validation while developing technical talent, expanding engineering capability, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration.

Description

The successful candidate will be a strong technical leader who remains actively engaged in silicon validation, bring-up, characterization, debug, and engineering execution. In addition to leading the local team, this individual will partner closely with validation leaders across multiple sites to execute both complex and foundational AMS IP validation programs as one integrated validation organization. Success in this role requires developing a technically balanced team that can independently own assigned IPs while effectively contributing to programs led by other sites, embracing shared ownership, engineering rigor, and collective delivery of program objectives.

The successful candidate will build a team recognized not only for technical excellence, but also as trusted engineering partners who collaborate effectively across organizations, share technical expertise, and provide scalable engineering support to deliver industry-leading semiconductor products.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor or Master degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline.

12+ years of experience in silicon validation, mixed-signal design, analog design, or related semiconductor engineering.

3+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience leading validation or mixed-signal engineering teams.

Strong hands-on experience in silicon bring-up, characterization, validation planning, complex debug, failure analysis, and validation of advanced mixed-signal or high-speed interface IPs.

Proven ability to coach, mentor, and develop engineers while building high-performing technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience validating advanced mixed-signal or high-speed interfaces, such as, SerDes, PCIe, UCIe, PLL, Ethernet, or similar semiconductor technologies.

Strong understanding of analog and mixed-signal circuit operation, high-speed measurements, signal integrity, jitter analysis, equalization, and advanced silicon validation methodologies.

Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with experience working effectively across geographically distributed engineering organizations.

Demonstrated ability to remain technically engaged while balancing engineering execution, people leadership, and program delivery.

Experience with validation automation, Python-based validation frameworks, AI-assisted validation workflows, robotic test systems, machine learning, and data analytics applied to silicon validation.

Demonstrated success leading engineering teams within a matrixed organization, including the ability to influence without direct authority, establish trust across organizations, and build collaborative partnerships across geographically distributed teams.

Experience expanding engineering capability by developing teams that successfully own both foundational IP validation and highly complex subsystem validation.

Proven track record of recruiting, developing, mentoring, and retaining high-caliber engineering talent.

Experience building collaborative engineering organizations where technical leadership, ownership, and execution are aligned to maximize overall program success rather than organizational boundaries.

Demonstrated success driving engineering excellence, organizational capability growth, continuous improvement, and engineering innovation in a fast-paced semiconductor development environment.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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