Apple · 3 months ago
RFIC Design Engineer
Irvine, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$140K/yr - $258K/yr
3+ years expApple is a leading technology company known for its innovation and groundbreaking products. As an RFIC Design Engineer within the Wireless Radio team, you will be at the center of a wireless SoC design group, contributing to Apple's wireless connectivity solutions and collaborating with various product development groups to enhance the user experience.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Architects, designs, and validates radio transceivers integrated into wireless SoCs
Transforms improved hardware elements into a single, coordinated design
Collaborates with other product development groups across Apple to innovate new technologies
Pushes the industry boundaries of what wireless systems can do
Qualification
Required
BS and 3 + years of relevant industry experience
Understanding of analog design concepts such as noise analysis, linearity, mismatch, stability, and other analog impairments
Experienced in Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EM simulation (EMX, HFSS), and similar tools
RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in ground-breaking RF CMOS design
Deep understanding of analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit design. This includes the design of LNAs, PAs, PLL/VCO/DCO/LOGEN blocks, mixers, baseband filters and amplifiers, data converters, and calibration methods associated with such high-performance wireless systems
Experienced in Silicon characterization and debugging
Preferred
MSEE and PhD plus relevant industry experience
Deep experience in crafting and bringing wireless transceivers into mass production is a plus
Familiarity with various RF transceiver architectures and their trade-offs and system specifications, and ability to work with system architects to translate system requirements into circuit requirements at the IC level
Understanding of the impact of modulation type on radio architecture and requirements
Proven capability to work with digital design groups for an optimum partition between digital and analog domains
Familiarity with mixed-signal mode verification methodology (SystemVerilog, AMS, Nanotime)
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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10001+ employees
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