Manager – Engineering Project Management (Systems Architecture & Pro Workflow)

Summary

Posted: Feb 24, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200591919

The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Are you up for the challenge? Our team is responsible for the technical management of engineering development projects within Apple’s System Performance Architecture organization. In this role you will lead a team of Engineering Program Managers who partner with our system architecture and pro workflow teams. Our team drives alignment across multiple teams to define system performance targets and lead the multi-year validation process across Apple devices spanning Mac, iPad, and iPhone product lines. By joining us in this role, you will be involved in developing workflows and assessing performance and usability of the Apple ecosystem (hardware, software, 3rd party) to inform system architecture decisions and software functionality to enable our most demanding professional users. The ideal candidate will have a unique combination of computer architecture understanding, familiarity with software development cycle, and experience enabling large multi disciplinary teams to deliver consumer electronic systems quickly and with high quality. They will understand the who, what and how of hardware development, create and coordinate the program plan, and successfully drive it while balancing multiple objectives and priorities. Come Join Us!

Description

The key responsibilities of the person at the Engineering Project Manager position will include; Leading curation of system performance modeling and characterization workloads; assist the team in efficiently running internal development efforts to support validation process Owning the process of establishing product performance targets and relevant validation workflows from architecture through execution Identifying and highlighting risk areas, develop mitigation strategies in partnership with impacted teams Gaining an understanding of critical issues and driving them to closure by bringing together key team members for decision making Supporting multiple levels of status updates across teams, to both individual contributors and executive management Enabling the development effort by creating and monitoring an efficient, streamlined process Initiating project kickoffs across Engineering teams to meet ambitious schedules Planning and executing validation phases, directing internal teams and engaging with external teams

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience leading EPM function in a hardware or software organization, including program management, aligning team priorities and capacity planning, and developing a high performing team
• Prior experience leading program management or engineering design of rapid development products

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of computer architecture and system development; familiarity with software development process
• Experience collaborating across multi disciplinary teams; ideally including Systems Engineering and Silicon Design
• Resilience and flexibility when faced with uncertainty and changes in direction
• Self motivated with strong critical thinking capabilities
• Meticulous attention to detail and ability to simplify complexities
• Excellent communication, organization and leadership skills with ability to inspire and align team members; ability to filter and distill relevant information and package for the right audience

Pay & Benefits

• 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 $173,100 and $301,400, 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.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.