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RFIC Design Engineer

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

About the role

RFIC Design Engineer in Apple’s Wireless Radio team focused on designing, validating, and bringing to mass production radio transceivers and RF/analog building blocks for wireless SoCs, collaborating across RF/Analog, Systems/PHY/MAC, VLSI/RTL, verification, test, and FW/SW to deliver high-performance wireless connectivity.

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, 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.
  • Collaborate with RFIC test engineers in setup, debugging, and optimization of the wireless connectivity chip throughout 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, including LNAs, PAs, PLL/VCO/DCO/LOGEN blocks, mixers, baseband filters and amplifiers, data converters, and calibration methods for high-performance wireless systems.
  • Experienced in Silicon characterization and debugging.
  • MSEE and PhD plus relevant industry experience (preferred).
  • Deep experience in crafting and bringing wireless transceivers into mass production (plus).
  • Familiarity with various RF transceiver architectures and their trade-offs; ability to translate system requirements into IC-level circuit requirements.
  • Understanding of impact of modulation type on radio architecture and requirements.
  • Proven ability to work with digital design groups for optimal partition between digital and analog domains.
  • Familiarity with mixed-signal verification methodology (SystemVerilog, AMS, Nanotime) (preferred).

Skills

Required:RF circuit designAnalog/mixed-signal designRF/Analog verification and debuggingCadence Virtuoso/Spectre RFEM simulation (EMX, HFSS)
Nice to have:System integration with digital groups

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • Potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • Relocation assistance (where applicable)
  • Employee stock programs via discretionary RSUs and stock purchase plan (participation optional)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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