Apple · 1 week ago
RFIC Design Engineer
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $302K/yr
10+ years expApple is a leading technology company known for its innovative products. They are seeking an RFIC Design Engineer to provide RFIC solutions for wireless SoC and drive them to mass production, collaborating with multi-functional teams to define and optimize radio features for wireless connectivity products.
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Responsibilities
As an RFIC Design Engineer, you will be responsible for providing RFIC solutions for wireless SoC and driving them to mass production for Apple’s Wireless Connectivity products. Responsibilities include:
Led design of radio transceiver chains, including TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen for wireless connectivity products
Drive radio KPI (power, area, performance) to meet product requirements
Work with multi-functional teams including platform architecture, wireless design, RF HW and SW to define radio features enabling wireless innovation
Work closely with RF Systems in block level and high level specifications of the TX and RX line ups and PLL-LOGen, and accurate distribution of spec margins in the chain
Hands-on design contributions, starting from concept, architecture, and topology to transistor-level feasibility studies and KPI trade-off analysis to actual design, simulations, and extractions
Design of RF and Analog loopbacks for calibration and compensation
Work through Co-Existence scenarios and design to meet the CoEx requirements
Be responsible for the floorplan layout and verification of the design to ensure a successful tape-out
Close collaboration with RFIC test engineers in the bring up, debug and optimization of the wireless connectivity chip through the productization
Provide design versus silicon measurements correlation and compliance with specifications for volume production
Qualification
Required
BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Shown RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in groundbreaking RF CMOS design
Strong understanding of analog design concepts such as analysis of noise, linearity, mismatch, stability, and other analog impairments
Experience in Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EM simulation (EMX, HFSS), and similar tools
Direct experience in designing and bringing wireless transceivers into mass production in deep sub-micron RFCMOS technology
Experience should also include understanding DFT and DFM techniques for mass production environments
Preferred
MSEE and PhD plus relevant industry experience
Solid Understanding of the impact of modulation type on radio architecture and requirements
Validated capability to work with digital design group for an optimum partition between digital and analog domains
Familiarity with the integration flows and challenges of wireless SoC's
Good understanding of desense and can work with board RF/HW/Antenna teams to optimize board/module layouts for desense mitigation
Familiarity with mixed-signal mode verification methodology (SystemVerilog, AMS, Nanotime)
Extensive experience in Silicon characterization and debugging
Ability to drive strong production test/QA methodologies
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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