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RFIC Design Engineer
| Company | Apple |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $135400 – $250600 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- BS and 3 + years of relevant industry experience.
- Understanding of analog design concepts such as noise analysis, linearity, mismatch, stability, and other analog impairments.
- Experienced in Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EM simulation (EMX, HFSS), and similar tools.
- RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in ground-breaking RF CMOS design.
- Deep understanding of analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit design. This includes the design of LNAs, PAs, PLL/VCO/DCO/LOGEN blocks, mixers, baseband filters and amplifiers, data converters, and calibration methods associated with such high-performance wireless systems.
- Experienced in Silicon characterization and debugging.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on design contributions, from concept, architecture, and topology to transistor-level feasibility studies, power, area and performance trade-off analysis to actual design, simulations, and extractions.
- Design and deliver radio transceiver building blocks and chains, including TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen for wireless connectivity products.
- Work closely with RF Systems on block-level and high-level specifications of the TX RX line-ups and PLL-LOGen and on the accurate distribution of spec margins in the chain.
- Design of RF and Analog loopbacks for calibration and compensation.
- Work through Co-Existence scenarios and design to meet the CoEx requirements.
- Collaborate closely with RFIC test engineers in the setup, debugging, and optimization of the wireless connectivity chip throughout productization.
- Provide design versus silicon measurements correlation and compliance with specifications for volume production.
Preferred Qualifications
- MSEE and PhD plus relevant industry experience.
- Deep experience in crafting and bringing wireless transceivers into mass production is a plus.
- Familiarity with various RF transceiver architectures and their trade-offs and system specifications, and ability to work with system architects to translate system requirements into circuit requirements at the IC level.
- Understanding of the impact of modulation type on radio architecture and requirements.
- Proven capability to work with digital design groups for an optimum partition between digital and analog domains.
- Familiarity with mixed-signal mode verification methodology (SystemVerilog, AMS, Nanotime).
