Engineering Manager, Mac Power Validation
Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino), California, United States
Hardware
The Mac Systems Quality team is looking for a highly motivated and experienced manager to lead a passionate team responsible for the validation and optimization of power and battery life on all new Mac products. Your main responsibilities include supervising data collection and analysis, distilling the data for cross-functional partners, driving issues to resolution, and expanding the team and its technical infrastructure to accommodate Apple’s product roadmap. We are seeking an individual with shown leadership, management, and team building skills comfortable working in a constantly evolving, collaborative environment.
Do you have an analytical mind and enjoy solving challenging problems in a fast paced and dynamic environment? Do you like working on a team that makes a difference with the products they create? You can help to drive and improve the quality of future Apple products that will delight and inspire millions of Apple’s customers every single day. Come join a creative team of engineers dedicated to keeping Mac innovation the highest in the industry.
Key Qualifications
- Shown technical leader with 2+ years of team management experience
- Detail oriented with strong analytical skills to help lead complex investigations and debug issues
- Deep knowledge of computer architecture, EE fundamentals and concepts of power consumption, power management and low power design
- Consistent track record of driving technical innovation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including executive level presentations; ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience
Description
In this role you will be responsible for delivering outstanding battery life and power efficiency to our customers. This involves close collaboration in a diverse team of software developers, QA engineers, hardware engineers, and project managers. In this role you will:
- Strengthen the team by hiring, retaining, and growing top engineering talent
- Use technical and debugging skills to dig into the details to help root cause issues and define appropriate performance metrics
- Collaborate tightly with cross-functional teams on high-profile, critical projects to drive bug fixes and power optimizations to ensure that all new Mac products meet their power targets
- Continually drive innovation within the team including improved testing efficiency, new test coverage, and automation improvements
- Communicate status and key insights to cross-functional teams and management
Education & Experience
MS/BS Degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or Computer Science