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RFIC Design Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (San Diego, Irvine, Sunnyvale, Waltham)$142.3k - $263.3kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

RFIC Design Engineer within Apple's Wireless Radio team, focusing on designing, validating, and delivering RFIC building blocks for wireless SoCs and enabling mass production for Apple’s Wireless Connectivity products.

Responsibilities

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

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 (LNAs, PAs, PLL/VCO/DCO/LOGEN blocks, mixers, baseband filters and amplifiers, data converters, calibration methods).
  • Experienced in Silicon characterization and debugging.

Skills

Required:RFIC designAnalog/mixed-signal/RF circuit design
Nice to have:Transceiver architecture knowledgeSystem collaboration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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