RF SoC Integration Engineer — End-to-End Validation

Apple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Wireless SoC RF Integration and Validation Engineer to drive end-to-end RF integration, calibration, and bring-up for our next-generation wireless silicon.

You will collaborate with RF/Analog, Systems, and FW/SW teams to deliver reliable silicon, perform pre-silicon emulation, characterize RF performance, and contribute to product readiness and mass production while advancing your depth across HW and SW domains.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field with 3+ years of industry experience.
• Strong RF parametric testing knowledge (IP3, NF, ACPR, phase noise).
• Experience with RF test equipment and embedded systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate RF end-to-end DUT control sequence and verify with emulation system.
• Responsible for wireless-SOC RF functionality bring up.
• Design and develop RF block and calibration algorithms and optimizations.
• RF performance characterization including Psat, NF, ACPR, phase noise, and lock time.
• Build RF test benches and write scripts to control equipment and analyze data.
• Generate RF performance summaries and ensure alignment with chip specs.
• Develop RF calibrations and tests for Wafer/Module ATE mass production and analyze failures.
• Develop RF FW based on Python scripts.

Skills

RF testing

RF calibration

Python

C programming

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Network analyzer

Spectrum analyzer

Vector signal analyzer

Vector signal generator

Job description

Apple Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Wireless SoC RF Integration and Validation Engineer to drive end-to-end RF integration, calibration, and bring-up for our next-generation wireless silicon.

You will collaborate with RF/Analog, Systems, and FW/SW teams to deliver reliable silicon, perform pre-silicon emulation, characterize RF performance, and contribute to product readiness and mass production while advancing your depth across HW and SW domains.