# Jialiang Y.

> Engineering Program Manager

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jialiangy

Senior Technical Program Manager with 12+ years of experience driving end-to-end silicon and hardware product lifecycles at Apple, TDK, and Goertek. Expert in managing NPI to Mass Production (MP) transitions for high-volume semiconductor products (MEMS/ASIC). Proven track record in cross-functional leadership across silicon design, fabrication, packaging, and global supply chain operations.

## Work Experience
### Engineering Program Manager @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Present | Cupertino, California, United States
Own end-to-end development and launch of next-generation microphone technologies across all Apple products, defining requirements, driving system architecture decisions, and aligning EE/PD/Silicon/Integration/Operations teams.
Lead cross-functional execution through NPI, managing schedules, risks, supplier readiness, and technical decision-making.
Delivered world-leading studio-quality waterproof microphones deployed across multiple flagship Apple products.

### Staff Team Lead - Product Engineering @ TDK InvenSense
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States
Lead cross-functional teams from validation to MP for projects in pressure and industrial motion sensor product line with focus on schedule, cost, and resource management.
Manage Product Engineering team to perform characterization during NPI and UPH/yield improvement during MP.
Ensure smooth MP transition with MP readiness preparation and production team coordination to overcome barriers during ramp up.
Provide timely support for customer technical inquiry and FA by providing supporting data and leading the root cause effort.

### Staff Product Engineer @ TDK InvenSense
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California, United States
Pressure sensor new product introduction for consumer electronics market

### Technical Program Manager @ GoerTek Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Project management over top-priority projects: MEMS microphone product line to support the largest consumer electronics company. 
Led cross-functional teams. Managed multiple MEMS microphone and sensor projects.
Coordinated with the customer’s EPM to provide on-time delivery of NPI builds.
Guided RD team to solve technical issues to meet expectations from customer’s Engineering team.

### Senior Product Development Engineer @ GoerTek Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Weifang, Shandong, China
Researched and sourced MEMS and ASIC vendors for pressure sensor packaging integration. Established pressure sensor packaging and testing capability from infancy to mass production. 
Thoroughly investigated potential partners for fingerprint sensor, force sensor, inertial sensor, gas sensor and humidity sensor.

### MEMS Design Engineer @ Guoruihengzhi Technologies Co., Ltd
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Beijing, China
Designed a new magnetic MEMS gyroscope with potential ultra-high sensitivity.
Built the magnetic gyroscope testing platform independently from scratch. 
Coordinated with MEMS foundry and ASIC team to fabricate the prototype gyroscope.

### Graduate Student Research Assistant, Ph.D. candidate @ University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
Designed and fabricated a high-performance hemispherical resonator gyroscope.
Designed and fabricated a liquid micro rotary stage.
Developed the microfabrication technology of fused silica etching and bonding.


## Education
### Master of Engineering (MEng) in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering
Sun Yat-sen University
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jialiang-y-b0382b36

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Last updated: 2026-04-07