Apple

RF System Integration Engineer (Instrument Engineering)

Apple$120K — $145K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field; MS preferred.
  • 3-4 years RF, wireless, or test/measurement engineering experience.
  • Strong RF fundamentals and troubleshooting skills using standard RF test equipment.
  • Proven ability to develop automated test software in Python and/or C++.
  • Excellent communication skills for customer interaction and technical presentations.
  • Willingness to travel internationally up to 15%.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with RF, software, and signal processing engineers.
  • Characterize and troubleshoot RF measurement systems on the bench.
  • Develop and maintain automated test and calibration software.
  • Engage directly with internal customers to ensure equipment accuracy and reliability.
  • Support testing automation and cross-functional team partnerships.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work closely with a small team of extraordinary engineers.
  • Hands-on RF role that combines bench debugging with automation.
  • Involvement in products that support millions of Apple devices.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge RF technology and test equipment.
Full Job Description
This small team of extraordinary engineers designs and produces precision RF and analog test equipment used to calibrate and validate cellular (5G/4G and legacy), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mmWave, UWB, and NFC radios across millions of iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch units. You'll collaborate closely with RF, software, and signal processing engineers, and work directly with the internal customers who rely on this equipment, to take internal products from concept to mass production, each one built to Apple's exacting standards. If you love chasing an elusive RF problem down to root cause and then writing the automation that makes sure it never comes back, this is your team.

Description

This is a hands-on RF role that blends bench debugging, RF applications support, customer engagement, and test automation. You'll characterize and troubleshoot RF measurement systems on the bench, develop and maintain automated test and calibration software, and partner across hardware, software, and customer teams to keep our test equipment accurate and reliable at production scale. You'll work across the RF bench, test-automation software, and direct collaboration with internal customers.

Minimum Qualifications

BS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field; MS preferred.

3-4 years of hands-on experience in RF, wireless, or test/measurement engineering.

Strong RF fundamentals and demonstrated ability to debug RF problems on the bench using standard RF test equipment (signal generators, analyzers, VNAs, power sensors).

Proven experience developing automated test software in Python and/or C++ from the ground up.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work directly with customers and present technical findings to engineering and cross-functional audiences.

Willingness to travel internationally up to 15%.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with RF system calibration methods, procedures, and traceability.

Recent experience analyzing RF parameters in Python or MATLAB (power, return loss, S-parameters, EVM, ACLR, IQ mismatch, statistics).

Working knowledge of DSP and communications theory.

Familiarity with cellular (5G/4G), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mmWave, UWB, or NFC radio test and measurement.

Familiarity with RF test equipment vendors (Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, NI, LitePoint, Anritsu).

CI/CD experience and a track record of integrating automated tests into a pipeline.

Hands-on experience using AI assistants and agentic coding workflows to design, write, and debug production-level engineering software.

Experience applying AI/ML techniques to RF data analysis, modeling, or anomaly detection.

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.

Apple Careers

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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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