Senior RFIC Design Engineer

2 weeks ago


Sunnyvale, California, United States Apple Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior RFIC Design Engineer to join our Wireless Radio team at Apple. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for designing and developing cutting-edge RFIC solutions for our wireless connectivity products.

Responsibilities
  • Lead the design of radio transceiver chains, including TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen, to meet product requirements.
  • Drive radio KPIs (power, area, performance) to meet product specifications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define radio features and enable wireless innovation.
  • Work closely with RF Systems to develop block-level and high-level specifications for TX and RX lineups and PLL-LOGen.
  • Contribute to hand-on design, from concept to transistor-level feasibility studies and KPI tradeoff analysis.
  • Design RF and Analog loopbacks for calibration and compensation.
  • Address Co-Existence scenarios and design to meet CoEx requirements.
  • Oversee floorplan layout and verification to ensure successful tapeout.
  • Closely collaborate with RFIC test engineers to bring up, debug, and optimize wireless connectivity chips.
  • Provide design versus silicon measurements correlation and compliance with specifications for volume production.
  • Work with the foundry team to understand technology node capabilities and limitations.
  • Provide guidance on analog and RF issues across Apple.
Requirements
  • 10+ years of RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in cutting-edge RF CMOS design.
  • Direct experience in designing and bringing into mass production of wireless transceivers in deep sub-micron RFCMOS technology.
  • Deep understanding of analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit design.
  • Experience with DFT and DFM techniques for mass production environment.
  • Strong understanding of analog design concepts, including noise, linearity, mismatch, stability, and other analog impairments.
  • Familiarity with various RF transceiver architectures and their trade-offs.
  • Ability to work with digital design group for optimum partition between digital and analog domain.
  • Experience with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EM simulation, and similar tools.
  • Familiarity with mixed-signal mode verification methodology.
  • Extensive experience in Silicon characterization and debug.
  • Ability to drive strong production test/QA methodologies.
Education & Experience

BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience. MSEE and PhD preferred.

Additional Requirements

Apple is an equal opportunity employer 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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