About the Role

At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people's lives. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? Do you like changing the game? We have an opportunity for a forward-thinking and unusually hardworking Wireless System Engineer. As a member of our multi-faceted group, you will have the rare and extraordinary opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apple's customers every single day.

In this technical role, you will be responsible for physical layer system design, integration, & characterization of state-of-the-art wireless SoC products at the center of a silicon design group from conception to production.

Responsibilities

• Implement system models for the wireless communication system and its RF/circuit impairments and design, simulate, and implement state-of-the-art physical layer wireless communication algorithms
• Design algorithms for calibration, pre-equalization, cancellation, and/or pre-distortion techniques to achieve efficient and robust performance across a large number of parts, systems, and wireless channels
• Implement fixed-point models and perform detailed performance investigation to allow performance sign-off and enable RTL bit-exact development
• Experience in PHY algorithms with digital designers using power and area efficient digital implementations
• Experience in PHY methods with firmware designers using high efficiency software implementations, and hardware acceleration
• Some working experience with validation and characterizing algorithms on real silicon alongside RFIC and digital circuit designers and automation/test engineers

Minimum Qualifications

• BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience
• Related working experience in OFDM
• Bring-up experience and take to production state-of-the-art physical layer wireless communication system algorithms for very high data rate applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred MSEE or PHD degrees
• Experience in designing firmware based algorithms involving MAC-PHY interactions and SW based PHY configurations and implement codes in Python and in firmware
• Experience in designing test plans and work with automation/test engineers to implement the same, collect and analyze test result, identify and debug issues

Equal Opportunity

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.