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Apple RFIC Design Engineer United States, California, Irvine 787048762
18.11.2024
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Description
You will provide RFIC designs for wireless SoC and drive them to mass production for Apple’s Wireless Connectivity products. Responsibilities include: - Hands-on design contributions, from concept, architecture, and topology to transistor-level feasibility studies, power, area, and performance trade-off analysis to actual design, simulations, and extractions.- Design and deliver radio transceiver building blocks and chains, including TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen for wireless connectivity products.- Work closely with RF Systems on block-level and high-level specifications of the TX RX line-ups and PLL-LOGen and on the accurate distribution of spec margins in the chain.- Design of RF and Analog loopbacks for calibration and compensation.- Work through Co-Existence scenarios and design to meet the CoEx requirements.- Provide design versus silicon measurements correlation and compliance with specifications for volume production.
Minimum 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.
- RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in ground-breaking RF CMOS design.
- Deep understanding of 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- MSEE and PhD plus relevant industry experience.
- Deep experience in crafting and bringing wireless transceivers into mass production is a plus.
- Familiarity with various RF transceiver architectures and their trade-offs and system specifications, and ability to work with system architects to translate system requirements into circuit requirements at the IC level.
- Understanding of the impact of modulation type on radio architecture and requirements.
- Proven capability to work with digital design groups for an optimum partition between digital and analog domains.
- Familiarity with mixed-signal mode verification methodology (SystemVerilog, AMS, Nanotime).
Pay & Benefits
- At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $135,400 and $250,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
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