Apple

RFIC - PLL Design Engineer

Apple$120K — $160K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  • Experience in Analog and Digital PLL design
  • Hands-on experience with PLL building blocks like TDC and filters
  • Strong understanding of analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit design
  • Familiarity with mixed-signal verification methodologies
  • Experience in silicon characterization and debug of PLLs

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop analog and digital PLLs for wireless SoCs
  • Drive PLL solutions to mass production for Apple products
  • Collaborate with system architects to define circuit requirements
  • Perform modeling and analysis for noise and spur cancellation
  • Work with digital design teams for optimal partitioning of circuits
  • Characterize and debug PLL and LOGEN silicon

Benefits

  • Health and wellness plans
  • Retirement plan options
  • Employee discount programs
  • Flexible work hours
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Collaborative work environment
Full Job Description
Description

As a RFIC-PLL Designer, you are going to contribute to providing analog and digital PLL solutions for wireless SoC and driving them to mass production for Apple's Wireless Connectivity products.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum requirement of a bachelors degree

Experienced in design and development of Analog and Digital PLLs and LOGEN for high performance applications.

Hands on experience in designing PLL building blocks: TDC, Digital Filters, Sigma Delta Modulators, Pre-scalers, MMD, DCO/VCOs and PFD/CP.

Understanding of analog, mixed-signal and RF circuit design concepts. This includes LNAs, PAs, mixers, baseband filters, VGAs and calibration methods associated with high performance wireless systems.

Familiarity with mixed-signal mode verification methodology (SystemVerilog, AMS).

Experience in PLL and LOGEN silicon characterization and debug.

Preferred Qualifications

Ph.D. degree

Hands on experience in modeling, analysis and design of noise/spur cancellation techniques in PLLs.

Familiarity with various RF transceiver architectures and their trade-offs, system specifications and ability to work with system architects to translate system requirements into circuit requirements at IC level.

Familiarity with timing analysis tools (Nanotime, Primetime).

Direct experience in designing and bringing into mass production of wireless transceivers in deep sub-micron RFCMOS technology.

Experienced in Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EM simulation (EMX, HFSS) and similar tools.

Demonstrated capability to work with digital design group for an optimum partition between digital and analog and contribute to providing comprehensive timing requirements.

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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