Apple is looking for an experienced manager to lead and grow the Platform Systems team. The role involves understanding and improving how Apple's latest features and technologies work across hardware, software, and silicon, ensuring system development, stability, and a great user experience.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of hardware component and hardware/software interactions
- Solid understanding of operating systems fundamentals
- Excellent debugging/triaging skills to solve challenging problems
- Experience developing scripts/tools to distill and visualize data a plus
- Proven experience in technical leadership: At least 2 years of experience managing engineering teams responsible for cross-functional systems work (hardware/software/silicon).
- Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills: Able to approach complex problems with creativity, curiosity, and a rigorous analytical mindset.
- Thoughtful and strategic mindset: Demonstrates the ability to “see around corners”-anticipating challenges and opportunities before they arise and planning accordingly.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with silicon, hardware, and software teams to help deliver surprise and delight in our latest products while enabling system development and stability.
- Understand how things work from the user interface down to the state transitions of each hardware block.
- Drive hardware build readiness, system stability in the presilicon and NPI phase.
- Convey the overall system stability impact to engineering teams with potential solutions for optimization.
- Help teams identify focus areas, run experiments, analyze data, and develop tools to help achieve efficiency while maintaining a great user experience.
Other
- 2+ years of management experience
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills
- Excellent prioritization skills and focus
- Track record of proactive execution: Highly skilled at anticipating risks, identifying next steps, and ensuring tasks and issues are driven to resolution without lingering or ambiguity.
- Strong organizational and prioritization abilities: Can juggle multiple initiatives, keep teams focused, and ensure the highest priority work is delivered with urgency and clarity.
