Apple - Sunnyvale, CA

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Sunnyvale, CA
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people's lives. We are seeking a forward-thinking and unusually hardworking Wireless System Engineer to join our multifaceted group. In this technical role, you will have the extraordinary opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apple's customers. Your responsibilities will include physical layer system design, integration, and characterization of state-of-the-art wireless SoC products from conception to production. You will implement system models for the wireless communication system, addressing RF/circuit impairments, and design, simulate, and implement advanced physical layer wireless communication algorithms. You will design algorithms for calibration, pre-equalization, cancellation, and/or pre-distortion techniques to achieve efficient and robust performance across a large number of parts, systems, and wireless channels. Your role will also involve implementing fixed-point models and performing detailed performance investigations to allow performance sign-off and enable RTL bit-exact development. You will collaborate with digital designers to realize PHY algorithms using power and area-efficient digital implementations, and with firmware designers to implement high-efficiency software implementations and hardware acceleration. Additionally, you will validate and characterize algorithms on real silicon alongside RFIC and digital circuit designers and automation/test engineers. Your work will include bringing up and taking to production state-of-the-art physical layer wireless communication system algorithms for very high data rate applications. You will design firmware-based algorithms involving MAC-PHY interactions and SW-based PHY configurations, implementing codes in Python and firmware. Developing test plans and working with automation/test engineers to implement these plans, collect and analyze test results, and identify and debug issues will also be part of your responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Implement system models for the wireless communication system and its RF/circuit impairments.
  • Design, simulate, and implement state-of-the-art physical layer wireless communication algorithms.
  • Design algorithms for calibration, pre-equalization, cancellation, and/or pre-distortion techniques.
  • Implement fixed-point models and perform detailed performance investigations.
  • Collaborate with digital designers to realize PHY algorithms with efficient digital implementations.
  • Work with firmware designers to realize PHY methods using high-efficiency software implementations and hardware acceleration.
  • Validate and characterize algorithms on real silicon alongside RFIC and digital circuit designers.
  • Bring up and take to production physical layer wireless communication system algorithms for high data rate applications.
  • Design firmware-based algorithms involving MAC-PHY interactions and SW-based PHY configurations.
  • Develop test plans and work with automation/test engineers to implement them, collect and analyze test results, and debug issues.

Requirements

  • Validated experience in system design, integration, bringing up and productization of wireless communication systems.
  • Experience bringing up a wireless chip including initial bringup/tuning of blocks and tuning of the tx or rx chain.
  • Understanding of communication theory and signal processing related algorithms.
  • Deep experience in system design, integration, bring up, characterization and debug of real silicon in lab.
  • Experience using lab equipment such as spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and power meters.
  • Experience in modem architecture, microprocessor architecture, hardware and software control.
  • Experience with silicon prototyping, emulation systems, and virtual platforms is a plus.
  • Knowledge of existing wireless communication protocols: LTE/WCDMA/GSM, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be, 802.11ad/ay or Bluetooth/BLE.
  • Proven experience with Matlab, Python, Shell scripting and/or C/C++.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with multi-radio coexistence management.

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
  • Relocation assistance
  • Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs
  • Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
  • Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount through Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
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