RFIC Design Engineer

The wireless RFIC team architects, designs, and validates radio transceivers integrated into sophisticated wireless SoCs.

• Led design of radio transceiver chains, including TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen for wireless connectivity products.
• Drive radio KPI (power, area, performance) to meet product requirements.
• Work with multi-functional teams including platform architecture, wireless design, RF HW and SW to define radio features enabling wireless innovation.
• Work closely with RF Systems in block level and high level specifications of the TX and RX line ups and PLL-LOGen, and accurate distribution of spec margins in the chain.
• Hands-on design contributions, starting from concept, architecture, and topology to transistor-level feasibility studies and KPI trade-off analysis to actual design, simulations, and extractions.
• Design of RF and Analog loopbacks for calibration and compensation.
• Work through Co-Existence scenarios and design to meet the CoEx requirements.
• Be responsible for the floorplan layout and verification of the design to ensure a successful tape-out.
• Close collaboration with RFIC test engineers in the bring up, debug and optimization of the wireless connectivity chip through the productization.
• Provide design versus silicon measurements correlation and compliance with specifications for volume production.

• BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Shown RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in groundbreaking RF CMOS design.
• Strong understanding of analog design concepts such as analysis of noise, linearity, mismatch, stability, and other analog impairments.
• Experience in Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EM simulation (EMX, HFSS), and similar tools.
• Direct experience in designing and bringing wireless transceivers into mass production in deep sub-micron RFCMOS technology.
• Experience should also include understanding DFT and DFM techniques for mass production environments.

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.