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Apple RF Hardware Board Designer 
United States, California, Irvine 
330344445

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As a Wireless Hardware Design Engineer, you will be responsible for crafting development boards and reference designs for testing and evaluating emerging wireless chip technologies!
Design Engineers work closely with internal chip and package design and chip integration teams to design, build and validate development boards required for chip bring-up and characterization. You will also work with external component vendors, PCB houses, and Apple factories to support wireless chips over their lifecycle, including application engineering support for product development teams.
  • BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Developing test boards to collaborate with wireless chips, FPGAs, PMUs, sensors, and other peripheral support chips over a variety of digital interfaces, including I2C, JTAG, UART, SPI, SPMI, and PCIe based on preliminary chip specifications.
  • Designing of power distribution and filtering networks for wireless chips.
  • Hardware bring-up, bench evaluation, and troubleshooting using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and wireless testers.
  • Understanding of PCB design principles for minimizing unwanted coupling and Rx de-sense.
  • PCB component selection and specification, including sockets for testing wireless chips.
  • Experience with schematic and board design using System Capture/Allegro or equivalent.
  • Understanding of DFM, DFT, SI, and PI principles for Wireless PCB design, including RF interface requirements of characteristic impedance and matching.
  • PCB construction requirements to meet SI and reliability requirements testing wireless chips.
  • Mechanical part design and modeling experience with Solidworks or NX preferred.
  • Leading vendors for PCB and mechanical part fabrication and assembly, and well as prototype part fabrication using 3-D printing.
  • Providing AE support for engineers integrating wireless chips into final products.
  • Experience with KiCad, Altium or Fusion 360 preferred.
  • Embedded programming and Python experience preferred.
  • Strong preference for working on electrical and/or mechanical projects in your spare time.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.