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Wireless PHY Systems Engineer — Pre-Silicon Emulation

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Role focused on pre-silicon emulation for wireless SoCs leveraging Palladium to de-risk silicon before tape-out. You will design, own, and evolve the emulation framework and lab bring-up for Bluetooth and UWB, working across digital, firmware, and validation to ensure emulated designs function as intended across silicon generations.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the initial validation point for each released Palladium emulation build, performing early smoke and sanity testing to confirm the build is functional, correctly configured, and ready for broader team use.
  • Build and own the framework and infrastructure that exercises the Palladium build — including register map definitions, initialization and boot sequences, clock and reset setup, and other system-level configuration — to bring the emulated SoC into an operational state.
  • Abstract platform bring-up and configuration complexity into reusable infrastructure and tooling, enabling the rest of the team to concentrate on their own design verification rather than platform-level setup.
  • Sustain, extend, and maintain this emulation infrastructure across multiple silicon generations, establishing it as a long-lived, reusable platform rather than a per-project effort.
  • Support pre-silicon emulation efforts for silicon validation, including test development, debug, and performance characterization on emulation platforms.
  • Bring up, test, characterize, and optimize Bluetooth and UWB silicon in the lab, ensuring robust performance across real-world operating conditions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
  • Solid foundation in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and wireless communications, with working knowledge of PHY and MAC layer concepts.
  • Hands-on software programming skills for system modeling, simulation, and test, with proficiency in MATLAB and C/C++.
  • Familiarity with analog/RF impairments common in wireless systems (e.g., phase noise, IQ imbalance, nonlinearity).
  • Experience with or knowledge of wireless standards such as Bluetooth, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), or other wireless protocols.
  • Experience collecting, processing, and visualizing large-scale simulation and test datasets, including performance metrics such as measurement accuracy, latency, and throughput.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Required:DSPMAC/PHY conceptsMATLABC/C++
Nice to have:PythonVerilog/VHDLLab troubleshooting

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation base pay within the stated range.
  • Discretionary employee stock programs and stock purchase plan eligibility.
  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, product discounts, and access to educational reimbursement.
  • Potential for discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation assistance.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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