
Wireless SoC RF Integration and Validation Engineer
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Job overview
Apple’s wireless silicon development team is seeking an engineer to deliver end-to-end RF integration, including DUT control development, pre-silicon emulation and simulation, and integrated RF calibration. The role supports wireless SoC-RF bring-up, silicon validation, and compliance, connecting design development through mass production. It offers opportunities to develop technical depth across hardware and software, including wireless transceiver architecture, RF systems and DSP, software frameworks, RF drivers, and embedded systems.
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Role Number: 200688939-3956
Summary
Come and join Apple’s growing wireless silicon development team. Our wireless SoC organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development, emphasizing highly energy-efficient design and new technologies that transform the user experience at the product level. All of this is driven by a world-class vertically integrated engineering team spanning RF/Analog architecture and design, Systems/PHY/MAC architecture and design, VLSI/RTL design and integration, Emulation, Design Verification, Test and Validation, and FW/SW engineering.
Description
In this role, and as part of our team, you will deliver an RF integration end-to-end Solution, which includes DUT control development, pre-silicon emulation/simulation, integrated RF calibration. You will become a central hub which enables different phases from design development toward Apple product’s mass production. You will also be responsible for Wireless SoC-RF Bring up at the first touch, final Silicon validation results and compliance. You will get the opportunity to keep developing your technical depth in both HW and SW domains, such as understanding of wireless transceiver architecture, RF system and DSP knowledge, Software framework, RF driver and embedded system, and experience of delivery Apple products until productization.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
Preferred Qualifications
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Solid experience of RF parametric testing, such as IP3, NF, ACPR, phase noise, load pull.
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Strong working knowledge of RF test equipments, such as; network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, vector signal analyzer, vector signal generator.
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Strong Wireless RF background and familiarity with RF systems fundamentals, RF transceiver architectures and/or digital communication.
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Proficiency with understanding RFIC block-level design schematics.
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Some experience of RF PCB board design, debug, and development.
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Python programming language is highly desired.
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Experience with embedded system and C programming language.
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Automation framework development.
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 499 open Validation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$145–210K/yr119 salary ranges
- US median$48–60/hr36 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 181 open Validation Engineer jobs in California and 499 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- NVIDIA28 open
- Apple (this employer)24 open
- Applied Intuition9 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Validation Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 385 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 301 of the 499 open Validation Engineer jobs (60%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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