RFIC Design Engineer – Wireless SoC Innovation

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation support

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an RFIC Design Engineer to craft RF/analog blocks for wireless connectivity in a high-performance wireless SoC. You will develop TX/RX chains, PLL/LOGEN, LNAs, PAs, and calibration techniques, delivering devices ready for mass production.

You will collaborate with RF Systems and test engineers to ensure spec margins, verifications, and silicon measurements align with product requirements while advancing wireless technology across Apple’s portfolio.

Qualifications

• BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Understanding of analog design concepts such as noise analysis, linearity, mismatch, stability, and other analog impairments.
• Experienced in Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EM simulation (EMX, HFSS), and similar tools.
• Expertise in analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit design. This includes the design of LNAs, PAs, PLL/VCO/DCO/LOGEN blocks, mixers, baseband filters and amplifiers, data converters, and calibration methods associated with such high-performance wireless systems.
• Experienced in Silicon characterization and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Provide RFIC designs for wireless SoC and drive them to mass production for Apple’s Wireless Connectivity products.
• Contribute hands-on design from concept to transistor-level feasibility studies and performance trade-off analyses.
• Design and deliver radio transceiver building blocks including TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen for wireless products.
• Collaborate with RF Systems on TX/RX specifications and margin distribution in the chain.
• Design RF/Analog loopbacks for calibration and compensation.
• Address Co-Existence scenarios and meet CoEx requirements.
• Work with RFIC test engineers on setup, debugging, and optimization during productization.
• Provide design versus silicon measurements correlation and compliance with specs for volume production.

Skills

RF circuit design

Analog design

Mixed-signal design

LNA/PA/PLL design

Silicon characterization

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso

Spectre RF

Matlab

EM simulation

HFSS

Job description

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an RFIC Design Engineer to craft RF/analog blocks for wireless connectivity in a high-performance wireless SoC. You will develop TX/RX chains, PLL/LOGEN, LNAs, PAs, and calibration techniques, delivering devices ready for mass production.

You will collaborate with RF Systems and test engineers to ensure spec margins, verifications, and silicon measurements align with product requirements while advancing wireless technology across Apple’s portfolio.