Apple

RF Hardware Engineer - Multi-Radio Coexistence

Apple$130K — $180K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with 10+ years relevant work experience.
  • Experience with at least one radio technology: Cellular, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Thread, NFC, or UWB.
  • Proficient in using lab equipment like spectrum analyzer and network analyzer.
  • Understanding of RF component characteristics and wireless architectures.
  • Master's degree in electrical engineering is preferred with additional relevant experience.
  • Experience debugging RF measurements at both conducted and radiated levels.
  • Familiarity with wireless protocol stacks at RF, PHY, and MAC layers.

Responsibilities

  • Assess platform-level multi-radio coexistence performance with cross-functional partners.
  • Design software mitigation schemes for multi-radio performance and assess trade-offs.
  • Set up devices for testing multi-radio coexistence performance studies.
  • Analyze wireless logs to inform controlled bench performance studies.
  • Propose hardware/software design changes for coexistence issues and align with partners.
  • Execute validation and characterization test plans for performance targets.
  • Track validation status and analyze results to communicate insights.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development.
  • Health and wellness programs.
  • Flexible working hours and potential remote work options.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and lab equipment.
Full Job Description
Description

You will be responsible for assessing platform-level multi-radio coexistence performance, including:

- Working with cross-functional partners to assess the multi-radio coexistence performance impact to the end user.

- Working with wireless software partners to design the software mitigation scheme, assess the trade-offs and implementation path.

- Bring-up device-under-test, setups and test procedures for multi-radio coexistence performance studies.

- Analyze wireless logs to understand field usage patterns and incorporate these learnings to perform controlled bench performance studies for multi-radio coexistence.

- Proposing HW/SW design and process changes for multi-radio coexistence issues considering design constraints and align with cross-functional partners on trade-offs and implementation path.

- Execution of validation & characterization test plans to meet multi-radio coexistence performance targets.

- Tracking validation status, analyze results and communicate insight from data.

- Collaborating with cross-functional partners for circuit-level, system-level simulations to understand risk areas and root cause issues.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with 10+ years relevant work experience.

Experience with at least one radio of Cellular, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Thread, NFC, and UWB.

Knowledge of RF component characteristics and experience using lab equipment including spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscopes, call box.

Knowledge of wireless architectures including front-end, antenna sharing, link budget line-up.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in electrical engineering with 10+ years relevant work experience.

Experience debugging and performing RF measurements at the conducted & radiated level.

Experience on co-existence performance benchmark, impact analysis, software mitigation scheme, MAC/PHY and throughput measurement and debug.

Experience working with chipset teams to define RF/wireless system-level requirements and influence chipset architecture or design decisions.

Familiarity with wireless protocol stack at the RF, PHY & MAC layers.

Excellent communication written and verbal skills.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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