Apple · 5 hours ago
RF/Analog/Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$140K/yr - $258K/yr
3+ years expApple is seeking a highly skilled RF, Analog, and Mixed Signal Engineer to join their engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing RF solutions for cellular transceiver chips, collaborating with various teams to define requirements and drive feasibility studies of RF/mixed-signal circuit blocks.
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Responsibilities
Working with platform architects, system, and digital design groups to define the requirements for RF and baseband blocks based on the system requirements
Collaborating with the technology team on process selection for the target device
Driving transistor-level feasibility studies of RF/mixed-signal circuit blocks and architectures
Designing various component blocks inside the RF transceiver, including LNA, upconverters/downconverters, baseband filters, VGAs, LO/PLL circuits, driver amplifiers/power amplifiers, linear RF switches, attenuators, low noise regulators, amplifiers, and biasing circuits
Working closely with the mask design team to implement layout views of designs
Qualification
Required
BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience required
Preferred
Direct experience designing and bringing into mass production highly integrated cellular RF transceivers in deep sub-micron RF CMOS technology
Ability to innovate and implement novel solutions for sophisticated engineering problems
Ability to collaborate with multi-functional teams to define system architecture and requirements
Familiarity with various RF transceiver architectures and their trade-offs; capability to collaborate with the digital design group for an optimum partition between the digital and analog domains
Deep understanding of RF CMOS implementation fundamentals and basic building blocks, including LNAs, mixers, VCOs and DCOs, PLLs, LO, and PAs
Design experience with digital TX or analog/digital/sampling PLL circuits is a bonus
Solid understanding of bandgaps, bias, opamps, LDOs, feedback, and compensation techniques
RF device modeling experience, including device noise parameters and inductor modeling. Insights into packaging effects, supply isolations, high-frequency ESD structures, and circuit layout for optimum RF performance
Very good knowledge of one or more of the following tools: Cadence/Virtuoso, Spectre, AMS, GoldenGate, AFS, ADS, EMX, layout parasitic extraction tools, SimVision, RelExpert
Bring-up and debugging skills, and experience in working with production test engineers to build test plans and design for testability
Ability to stay up to date with industry trends and new technologies to drive continuous improvement
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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