Apple

SoC Pre-Silicon Engineering Program Manager

Apple$130K — $155K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree plus 3+ years of relevant experience
  • Experience in SoC/VLSI Chip Design or ASIC Chip Design
  • Proficient in crisis management and multitasking in engineering settings
  • Familiarity with LLM tools and AI capabilities at Apple
  • Experience with project management tools like Confluence and JIRA

Responsibilities

  • Drive front-end silicon program schedules to ensure timely delivery
  • Resolve technical issues impacting on-time silicon release
  • Support fast-paced design team in achieving high-level milestones
  • Drive issue resolution across multi-functional teams (Design, Verification, Validation)
  • Focus design efforts on immediate goals and unblock challenges through collaboration
  • Coordinate dependencies across programs and teams
  • Attend technical sessions with partners to address design and supply issues

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on groundbreaking silicon for next-gen Apple products
  • Engagement with multi-functional teams across various engineering domains
  • Access to Apple's internal AI tools and training
  • Potential for leadership development through project management experiences
  • Participation in high-level technical discussions with design partners
Full Job Description
As a Silicon Program Manager within the Hardware Technology Engineering organization, you will be responsible for driving front-end silicon program schedules and resolving technical issues that enable on-time silicon. This is an individual contributor role, helping manage the development process for SOC silicon used in next-generation Apple products. The focus of this role is on the initial phases of architecture, specifications, design, and pre-silicon prototyping to initial samples. Interaction and coordination with post-silicon validation teams is also encouraged.

Description

- Work on a Program Management team orchestrating technical issue resolution to enable on-time silicon to meet daring product schedules of groundbreaking silicon

- Drive internal program process to guarantee high-quality silicon definition and design execution

- Support high-level milestone execution in a fast-paced design team

- Interface and drive silicon issues within multi-functional teams: Design, Verification, Validation, Technology, System Hardware, and Core Software

- Focus design teams on meeting near-term achievements and unblocking technical issues by pulling together the right technical specialists to resolve the issues with data driven decision-making

- Run dependencies across various programs, functional teams, and sites

- Coordination and management with other organizations (Systems, SW, Ops)

- Attend and drive technical sessions with suppliers/design partners to supervise and follow-up issues and customer concerns

- Focused issue reporting, bug tracking and communication of program risks & status

Minimum Qualifications

BS + minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Requires experience in SoC/VLSI Chip Design, ASIC Chip Design, or Technology process development

Experience working in a multifaceted engineering environment, strong at multi-tasking, and real-time crisis management

Apply LLM tools and agentic frameworks (e.g., Claude Code) to streamline PM workflows; stay current on Apple's internal AI capabilities and support teammates in adopting relevant tools and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Program or Project Management or Functional Management experience

Phenomenal leadership and interpersonal skills (Executive communication)

Expertise owning and driving project development using well-defined metrics

Experience working with ASIC & VLSI design flows and leading silicon projects from concept to production

Programming language experience (Javascript, Python, Perl)

Familiarity with project management tools (Confluence, JIRA)|

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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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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