Apple is looking for program management & design engineering professionals with strong leadership, managerial courage & communication abilities to ensure that our 3rd party developed analog/mixed-signal Custom Silicon designs meet the technical, quality & schedule requirements for all of our hardware products. In this position you will represent Apple in front of our custom silicon vendors all over the world. You will be responsible for driving the full Silicon development cycle from initial concept, vendor selection, implementation, validation, qualification through ramp for mass production. You will use your deep technical knowledge including effective program / project management skills to drive silicon program schedules and resolve technical issues that enable timely silicon delivery to Apple products. Additionally, you will forge strategic relationships with internal & external leadership to influence prioritization, lead issue resolution, communicate status/issues/next steps and drive continuous improvement initiatives.