Palladium-Driven Pre-Silicon Wireless PHY Engineer

Apple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Wireless PHY Systems Engineer to own pre-silicon emulation. You will lead Palladium-based bring-up, build robust frameworks, and collaborate across RF/Analog, DSP, firmware, and verification teams.

The role emphasizes energy-efficient wireless SoC development, lab validation, and cross-layer integration from RF to firmware. Extensive debug and performance characterization are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
• Solid foundation in DSP and wireless communications, with working knowledge of PHY and MAC layer concepts.
• Hands-on software programming in MATLAB and C/C++.
• Familiarity with analog/RF impairments in wireless systems.
• Experience with Bluetooth/UWB or other wireless protocols.
• Experience collecting, processing, and visualizing large-scale simulation data and metrics.
• Strong written and verbal communication across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Validate Palladium emulation builds with early smoke and sanity tests.
• Build and own the framework and infrastructure for emulation: register maps, init/boot sequences, clocks.
• Abstract bring-up complexity into reusable tooling for the team.
• Maintain emulation infrastructure across multiple silicon generations.
• Support pre-silicon emulation efforts including test development and debugging.
• Bring up and optimize Bluetooth and UWB silicon in lab environments.

Skills

Digital Signal Processing

Wireless communications

MATLAB

C/C++

Analog/RF impairments

Bluetooth/UWB protocols

Data analysis

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Palladium emulation

Verilog/VHDL

RF lab equipment

Job description

Apple Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Wireless PHY Systems Engineer to own pre-silicon emulation. You will lead Palladium-based bring-up, build robust frameworks, and collaborate across RF/Analog, DSP, firmware, and verification teams.

The role emphasizes energy-efficient wireless SoC development, lab validation, and cross-layer integration from RF to firmware. Extensive debug and performance characterization are expected.