Engineering Project Manager - Embedded Software Platform
Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino), California, United States
Hardware
Apple is looking for a highly motivated Engineering Project Manager (EPM) to join our Embedded Software Platform Engineering Team in Apple’s Special Projects Group focusing on Autonomous Systems. This individual will work directly with HW and SW systems engineers leading planning, design, implementation, and system integration activities. The successful candidate will have experience in embedded systems bringup, requirements engineering management, systems integration, and developing programs to drive HW and SW planning, articulating the big picture.
Key Qualifications
- Product experience with Autonomous Systems HW and SW components including sensors
- At least 8 years combined experience in engineering and software project leadership delivering cross-functional projects across disciplines (SW, HW, QA)
- Exceptional experience developing and/or leading large projects/programs across multiple engineering teams with a focus on embedded systems and systems/SW integration
- Detailed understanding of, and experience with, all phases of product development processes
- Excellent track record of project management and meeting deliverables
- Self motivated, proactive, critical thinker with a strong intuition to resolve roadblocks before they become risks
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills with the ability to win the confidence of highly skilled engineers
- Ability to filter and distill relevant information appropriate for audiences ranging from Apple Executives to cross-functional feature crews
- Flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity
Description
Partner with engineering teams through all phases of development to deliver on-time, high-quality software
Lead discussions on requirements, planning, architecture, detailed design, implementation, verification and validation
Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution to program issues
Communicate project goals, top issues, risks, critical milestones to leadership
Manage the roadmap, priorities, scoping, timelines, for technologies
Help the team with ongoing improvements to the program management processes
Deep dive into the details to drive decisions where needed
Education & Experience
BS in Engineering — Computer Engineering, Computer Science degree or equivalent required