RF SoC Integration & Validation Engineer — Stock Benefits

Apple, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Stock programs

Employee stock purchase plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple, Inc. seeks a Wireless SoC RF Integration and Validation Engineer to drive end-to-end RF integration, DUT control, and calibration for next-generation wireless silicon.

You will spearhead bring-up at first touch, guide silicon validation, and collaborate across RF/Analog, Systems/PHY/MAC, and FW/SW teams to ensure production readiness. You will develop RF calibration algorithms, implement RF test benches, and analyze large data sets to generate concise performance summaries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience with RF parametric testing (IP3, NF, ACPR, phase noise, load pull).
• Strong knowledge of RF test equipment (network/spectrum/VSAs/VSGen).
• Strong Wireless RF background and understanding of RF systems fundamentals.

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/or system calibrations including algorithms and optimizations.
• RF performance optimization and characterization (Psat, Mask, IP3, NF, ACPR, phase noise, lock time, return loss).
• Design RF test bench and scripts to control wireless-SOC and communicate test equipment.
• Write scripts to plot, parse and analyze large data sets.
• Generate RF performance summary reports from characterization results against chip specs.
• Develop RF Calibrations and tests for Wafer ATE and Module ATE mass productions and analyze ATE failures.
• Develop RF FW based on Python reference script.

Skills

RF parametric testing

Wireless RF fundamentals

Python programming

C programming

Embedded systems

RF transceiver architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Network Analyzer

Spectrum Analyzer

Vector Signal Analyzer

Vector Signal Generator

Job description

Apple, Inc. seeks a Wireless SoC RF Integration and Validation Engineer to drive end-to-end RF integration, DUT control, and calibration for next-generation wireless silicon.

You will spearhead bring-up at first touch, guide silicon validation, and collaborate across RF/Analog, Systems/PHY/MAC, and FW/SW teams to ensure production readiness. You will develop RF calibration algorithms, implement RF test benches, and analyze large data sets to generate concise performance summaries.