
Wireless Systems Validation Eng
Cupertino, CAFull-time$163–225K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Apple seeks a Wireless Systems Validation Engineer to develop wireless products, focusing on multi-radio coexistence design. The role defines performance requirements and test methods, works with cross-functional teams and suppliers, and supports design, manufacturing test, and failure analysis. It also analyzes RF signals and test results to identify root causes and recommend system integration improvements. International travel of 15% is required.
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Full job description
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200691296-0836
Summary
Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.
Description
APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Involved in system development of wireless products with a focus on multi-radios co-existence design. Define co-existence performance requirements and test methodology to ensure Apple product meets those requirements. Work with cross-functional teams, vendors, contract manufacturers, and technology suppliers. Provide design guidelines, review PCB and flex layouts, debug and resolving multi-radio coexistence issues. Support manufacturing test and debug failure units and perform large sample failure analysis. Participate in developing system mitigation that optimizes product performance. Analyze root cause of parametric test failures and sub-optimal test results. Use spectrum analyzers, base station emulators, and network analyzers to measure and analyze radio frequency signals in mobile devices. Pinpoint actual causes of test failures or sub-optimal test results in an efficient manner, and foresee performance issues based on analysis of test results. Provide integration recommendations towards optimizing the overall radio system performance quality of the wireless device. 15% International travel required. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $163,031 - $225,300/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Minimum Qualifications
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Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field.
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Experience and/or education must include:
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Full-cycle physical design and layout of sub-micron RFICs to identify potential interactions among RF components and drive system-level design improvements.
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Performing failure analyses to identify and resolve complex system-level hardware issues during development. Conducting hands-on rework (soldering, tuning, reassembly) to evaluate mockups and close performance gaps.
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Architecture of microwave signal chains, link budget analysis, and electromagnetic simulation of phased array antennas.
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Strong fundamental understanding of RFIC/RF system design principles.
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Communicating Circuit Design & Signal Integrity Design, validation of analog/mixed-signal blocks (ADC/DAC), characterization of Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) and quantization noise.
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Configuring RF test equipment (callboxes, signal generators, signal analyzers) to conduct measurements and debug hardware issues.
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Collaborating with vendors to improve RF grounding, mitigate EMI, and drive mass production solutions.
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Experience on at least one radio of Cellular, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Thread, NFC, and UWB.
Preferred Qualifications
- N/A
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,823 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$163–225K/yr
- California median$143–213K/yr1,812 salary ranges
- US median$116–190K/yr8,716 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $194K, is 10% above the California median midpoint ($177K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,119 open Systems Engineer jobs in California and 11,823 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril255 open
- Northrop Grumman214 open
- The Boeing Company95 open
- Experience
- Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (9,867 postings).
- Education
- 4,496 of the 11,823 open Systems Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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