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26.08.2025
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Apple Wireless Cellular Standards Engineer United States, California, San Diego
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In this technical role, you will be at the center of our cellular standards group responsible for promoting the wireless technologies of our innovative wireless SoC products. You will have the chance to create algorithms and architectures of wireless communication systems, as well as collaborate with extraordinary RF/analog, HW, SW designers and architects to design SoC products to millions of Apple customers!
In this role, core responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Designing and simulating wireless communication systems for 5G and 6G technologies, including channel coding, advanced MIMO systems, protocols for energy saving, AI/ML for air interface enhancements, sensing techniques, control and data channel optimization for cellular systems. Collaborate with product teams and come up with novel architecture, protocols, and algorithms to meet the requirements of emerging applications in a challenging radio environment.
- Working knowledge of wireless communication systems (e.g., OFDM/MIMO, etc.).
- Proven experience in the algorithm development and implementation design of communication systems or signal processing algorithms, and ability to develop and implement performance tuning strategies and optimizations.
- Experience with Matlab or Python and/or C/C++ for algorithm development, modeling, and simulation.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Motivated to collaborate and contribute as a team, and able to deliver ambitious tasks in a timely manner.
- BS and 3+ years of relevant experience is required.
- Ph.D. with a focus on communication systems, signal processing or AI/ML for wireless communication
- Knowledge in existing wireless communication protocols, such as 5G/LTE/WCDMA/GSM, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be, 802.11ad/ay or Bluetooth/BLE.
- Strong understanding of communication theory and relevant algorithm design experience on, including but not limited to, timing recovery, automatic gain control, modulation, channel estimation, equalization, MIMO signal estimation and detection, channel coding and error correction, and beam forming algorithms
- Experience in designing systems that operate efficiently in high-load and noisy environments.
- Experience on low-power algorithm design for power critical applications.
- Experience with multi-radio coexistence management.
- Deep understanding of components/modules within wireless communication systems, and the possible impairments from those components, and the corresponding calibration and impairment reduction methods/algorithms, digital pre-distortion, PAPR reduction algorithms, Tx power control, etc.
- Experience in modem architecture, microprocessor architecture, hardware and software control.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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26.08.2025
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Apple Cellular Platform Software Engineering Manager CoreBSP Enabl... United States, California, San Diego
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- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5+ years of team management and leadership experience.
- Deep understanding of, or ability to gain deep expertise in, CPU processors, SoC architectures, and RTOS kernels.
- Extensive development experience with strong skills in Assembly, C, and C++.
- Advanced debugging expertise using gdb/lldb, JTAG/ETM, and RAM dump analysis on both FPGA and hardware platforms.
- Hands-on experience in pre-silicon and post-silicon software bring-up, validation, and debugging of hardware-dependent software (Board Support Package: BSP).
- Proven success working in dynamic, fast-paced, multi-tasking environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
- Strong leadership, interpersonal, and initiative-taking skills.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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26.08.2025
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Apple Cellular Systems Simulations Integration Engineer United States, California, San Diego
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Wireless technologies have become a crucial part of all Apple devices that delight our customers. With the latest developments in cellular, we apply a sophisticated simulation platform to study the performance of our devices in complicated radio and network conditions and gain insights for system design. In this role, you will be at the center of a silicon design group responsible for physical layer systems for pioneering wireless SoC products, with a focus in wireless system design, modeling, and simulations.
Contribute to simulator configuration management and perform SW releases. Work on simulation framework related topics, such as regression infrastructure development, test coverage analysis, design of automation scripts as well as tool deployment and library integration. Design and implement 4G/5G PHY models for pre-silicon simulation and verification. Perform verification of the PHY models using 3rd Party test tools and test data provided by external network vendors. Contribute to link-level simulator modeling, meaningful metric testing, and framework design. 4G/5G PHY/MAC layer abstraction/modeling, and interfacing with higher layers via external simulators. Design test cases for feature verification, drive feature bring-up, and issue resolution. Collaborate across teams to define/ document project requirements, including model architecture, interfaces, and feature sets and solve integration issues with HW and FW teams.
- Minimum requirement of BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Expert knowledge in Python and C/C++ including the latest C++ standard evolution and professional experience in C/C++ SW development.
- Strong background in building systems, configuration, and release management.
- Good understanding of simulator frameworks for link- and system-level simulations as well as FW development.
- Solid knowledge of wireless communication systems with hands-on experience in 4G/5G PHY FW design, pre-silicon verification and critical metric testing.
- Working experience in workflow automation for verification and regression testing.
- Experience in code optimization techniques and efficient code development, including memory and runtime profiling and understanding of C/C++ compiler internals.
- Experience with Matlab including good understanding of baseband signal processing algorithms.
- Solid knowledge of current cellular communication standards: 5G (NR) and 4G (LTE).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (issue triage, debugging and fixing of defects, …).
- Experience in chip bring-up including the use of lab equipment is a plus
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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26.08.2025
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Apple CAD Engineering Program Manager United States, California, San Diego
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- Responsible for daily and long-term project management tasks.- Participate in early planning of new projects as well as resourcing and scheduling.- Assist with development of and ownership for tracking new project schedules and resource metrics.- Drive weekly schedule and communication meetings with upper management.- Rolling up your sleeves and doing what it takes to things done.
- BS + 3 years of relevant experience.
- Chip design and/or CAD flow knowledge required.
- Experience in any of the following: Front-end (Logic design, Synthesis, DV, or DFT) or Back-end (PNR, STA, LVS, DRC, Extraction) CAD Tools/Flows.
- Program/project management experience leading Silicon projects/CAD Projects, or a combination of Program Management and CAD design experience.
- Participate in technical discussions, ask probing questions, and work with the team to pull together scoping, schedules, and solutions to issues.
- Work on an EPM team responsible for driving technical issue resolution to enable on-time silicon to meet ambitious product schedules.
- Excellent leadership skills, enthusiasm, and ability to inspire team members.
- A background successfully handling conflicting priorities and driving results.
- Experience with successfully delivering multiple silicon tapeouts.
- Strong desire to own project development and drive team to success.
- Enjoy sharing in the success of delivering a successful product.
- Work together across multiple sites and multi-functionally throughout the entire organization.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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26.08.2025
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Apple Reliability Engineer Lead – Custom Silicon Management United States, California, San Diego
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•You will drive requirements and execution of products, process and package qualification and reliability stress tests conditions and configurations from design stage all the way to successful qualification completion.•Drive and review Design for Reliability and Design for Test to ensure stress-ability and testability.•Lead all aspects of and ensure adequate preparation for qualification including such as corner skew material, BIB/Socket, waveform, electrical bias, thermal effect, lifetime estimation.•Implement POR of process flows, workmanship standards and supervise product performance.•Perform FAI (First Article Inspection) to ensure critical goals are reviewed before engineering, pre-production and production release for Product manufacturing.•Drive investigation and resolution on qualification fallouts and product and process nonconformance of MRB, RMA events through means of FA, CAR, 8D, and reporting.•Support PCN or ECN activities.•Conduct supplier audits when needed. •Assess/perform yield analysis and correlation analysis for all levels of test including Pareto building, statistics, etc. •Drive/guide suppliers for improvement as needed.
- BS degree and 10 years of industry experience.
- Experience in JEDEC reliability and quality related standards, ISO, and the science behind them.
- Travel is required for this role.
- You will have 15+ years of semiconductor engineering in the Reliability and/or Quality/Product Engineering role from multinational companies.
- Experience with silicon product level reliability qualification and lifetime behavior model.
- Prior experience defining hardware setups and equipment for life, environmental, ESD, Latch-Up and other tests.
- Validated auditing of supplier sites, materials and processes.
- Experience driving suppliers in the areas of silicon Fab process / packaging / assembly, test, ongoing reliability monitoring, post-production qualification.
- Familiar with process flows, specifications, and supervising supplier performance (process Cpk, yield, qualification report, etc.)
- Possess knowledge on practice of FAI to validate the work suppliers are doing prior to production stage.
- Outstanding communication skills.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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26.08.2025
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Apple Wearables SoC Concept Engineering Program Manager United States, California, San Diego
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In this role, you will drive the day-to-day activities during the SoC definition and architecture phase of SoC concept development for wearable Apple products. This is a phenomenal opportunity to apply your technical expertise and design background, along with effective program management skills, to plan, influence, and drive program execution during the architecture and concept phases of SoC product lifecycle.
- Coordinate and drive SoC planning meetings and definition reviews, ensuring alignment among SoC architects, implementation and validation teams.- Drive key architecture multi-functional reviews and adoption activities.- Collaborate with SoC, Systems and SW organizations to develop comprehensive, tightly interlocked program schedules and guide successful silicon execution.
- BS in a technical engineering discipline and 10+ years relevant experience.
- Proven Silicon Design, Integration and/or Validation experience.
- Experience developing strategic and executable Silicon and program schedules.
- Experience leading end-to-end SoC development life cycle from concept to mass production.
- Strong technical breadth to understand vertical system integration challenges at the intersection of SoC, system engineering, and software.
- Ability to distill complex technical data.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams and audiences.
- Experience leading large, multi-functional leadership forums with a collaborative approach.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Wireless industry experience is a plus.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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26.08.2025
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Apple RF Test Engineering Program Manager United States, California, San Diego
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- Lead multiple parallel projects. - Coordinate and drive build-readiness reviews.- Manage specification reviews and the spec sign off process.- Talk to System EPMs to coordinate regulatory testing within the timeline for product MP release. - Present to management in weekly multi-functional meetings to align on project progress.
- BS degree + 3 years relevant experience
- Requires one of the following: RF Test Equipment or knowledge of cellular standards including WCDMA, LTE and 5G and/or Knowledge of 3GPP RF test specification and/or General knowledge of WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS.
- 2+ Years Technical Program or Project Management or Engineering Lead
- Strong desire to own/drive project development using well defined metrics.
- Experience working in a multifaceted engineering environment and real-time crisis leadership skills.
- Experience with disciplined issue reporting, bug tracking, and communication of program risks & status.
- Candidate should be able to participate in technical discussions related to RF testing with the multi-functional teams.
- Candidate should have excellent communications skills and should understand how to tailor content to meet the needs of the intended audience.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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Share
Description:
In this technical role, you will be at the center of our cellular standards group responsible for promoting the wireless technologies of our innovative wireless SoC products. You will have the chance to create algorithms and architectures of wireless communication systems, as well as collaborate with extraordinary RF/analog, HW, SW designers and architects to design SoC products to millions of Apple customers!
In this role, core responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Designing and simulating wireless communication systems for 5G and 6G technologies, including channel coding, advanced MIMO systems, protocols for energy saving, AI/ML for air interface enhancements, sensing techniques, control and data channel optimization for cellular systems. Collaborate with product teams and come up with novel architecture, protocols, and algorithms to meet the requirements of emerging applications in a challenging radio environment.
- Working knowledge of wireless communication systems (e.g., OFDM/MIMO, etc.).
- Proven experience in the algorithm development and implementation design of communication systems or signal processing algorithms, and ability to develop and implement performance tuning strategies and optimizations.
- Experience with Matlab or Python and/or C/C++ for algorithm development, modeling, and simulation.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Motivated to collaborate and contribute as a team, and able to deliver ambitious tasks in a timely manner.
- BS and 3+ years of relevant experience is required.
- Ph.D. with a focus on communication systems, signal processing or AI/ML for wireless communication
- Knowledge in existing wireless communication protocols, such as 5G/LTE/WCDMA/GSM, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be, 802.11ad/ay or Bluetooth/BLE.
- Strong understanding of communication theory and relevant algorithm design experience on, including but not limited to, timing recovery, automatic gain control, modulation, channel estimation, equalization, MIMO signal estimation and detection, channel coding and error correction, and beam forming algorithms
- Experience in designing systems that operate efficiently in high-load and noisy environments.
- Experience on low-power algorithm design for power critical applications.
- Experience with multi-radio coexistence management.
- Deep understanding of components/modules within wireless communication systems, and the possible impairments from those components, and the corresponding calibration and impairment reduction methods/algorithms, digital pre-distortion, PAPR reduction algorithms, Tx power control, etc.
- Experience in modem architecture, microprocessor architecture, hardware and software control.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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