System Integration Lead
Lex
Other Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on May 6, 2026
Summary
People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that has revolutionised entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas encourages innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Every single day, people do amazing things at Apple!
System Firmware and Diagnostic Group has an opening for System Integration Lead (Technical Program Manager). In this role, you will lead, coordinate and cross-functionally represent, the definition and execution of manufacturing tests, that enable extended stress testing and calibration of Apple's current and future product lines, including iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple Watch and set the benchmark for the quality associated with Apple products. You must thrive in a fast-paced environment, have strong understanding of software fundamentals, background working with systems, excellent communication skills, and a desire to work with cross- functional teams to develop ground-breaking products. Your contributions will make a pronounced difference to future Apple products.
Description
The team has responsibilities spanning all aspects of product bring-up and test:
People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that has revolutionised entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas encourages innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Every single day, people do amazing things at Apple!
System Firmware and Diagnostic Group has an opening for System Integration Lead (Technical Program Manager). In this role, you will lead, coordinate and cross-functionally represent, the definition and execution of manufacturing tests, that enable extended stress testing and calibration of Apple's current and future product lines, including iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple Watch and set the benchmark for the quality associated with Apple products. You must thrive in a fast-paced environment, have strong understanding of software fundamentals, background working with systems, excellent communication skills, and a desire to work with cross- functional teams to develop ground-breaking products. Your contributions will make a pronounced difference to future Apple products.
Description
The team has responsibilities spanning all aspects of product bring-up and test:
- Scoping the development of drivers, applications, protocols, frameworks, and command line utilities for validation of hardware internally and in manufacturing
- Supporting bring up of new SoCs, chipsets, sensors, and products
- Interacting with Hardware, Software, Operations and various other cross-functional teams throughout Apple
- Enabling test strategies for new components in upcoming products
- Supporting new product development builds locally and remotely
- First level of triage for test and software issues
- Hands-on debugging or coordination of cross-functional debug, as appropriate
- Drive issues, track tasks, and evaluate priorities daily
- Driving and enabling process improvements
- Work with our engineering team to define, schedule, track, and communicate the status of software features and deliverables to other groups and executive management.
- Communicate status to the executive management regularly
- Travel to prototype hardware manufacturing builds
- Engineering experience: 5+ years
- Program Management experience: 3+ years
- Good understanding of software development
- Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to drive issues, track tasks, and evaluate priorities on a daily basis
- Strong EE fundamentals is desired
- SoC development and testing experience or knowledge is desired
- Manufacturing experience and prior exposure to working with Contract Manufacturers is highly desired
- BS Electrical / Computer Engineering or relevant work experience (MS is a plus)
- Good multitasking capabilities with ability to handle frequent context switches
- Linux command line / scripting experience is a plus
- macOS and/or iOS experience is a plus
- Python/Lua experience is a plus
- Data Analysis and visualizations experience