Cellular Field Design Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

68d • Onsite

About The Position

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming products, services, and customer experiences very quickly! Do you want to impact millions of users by developing an extra-ordinary product with a prime focus on accuracy, understandability and performance of the product? We are the Apple Field Design Engineering team, and we are seeking a highly motivated and technical individual to work on testing unreleased Apple products. Come join our team and become part of a hands-on group that fosters engineering excellence, creativity and innovation. We are a team of multifaceted, encouraging people and innovative technologies are the norm here. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent major with 2-5 years relevant work experience
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end testing of cellular technologies that includes test plan preparation, field testing, log analysis & debugging issues
• Working knowledge in at least one of the wireless technology- 5G NR, LTE/LTE-A, UMTS
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detailed oriented, analytical, able to work independently
• Availability to travel for work up to 50% of the year (domestic and sometimes internationally) without restrictions

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent major
• Deep understanding of cellular protocol stack from LTE PHY/MAC to higher layers, call processing.
• Experience being responsible for a complete functional area of an application or product with clear communication across multiple levels in the organization.
• Knowledge of Antenna/ RF design
• Basic scripting experience (Shell/Perl/Python/Matlab)

Responsibilities

• Evaluating the latest iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch hardware systems in the field from early prototype to final products.
• Working on different network and wireless technologies, including performance metrics creation/evolution, post processing, and analysis of device logs from the field.
• Working with the HW/SW development teams and other multi-functional teams on identifying issues impacting the Cellular functionality and performance.
• Performing HW and SW cellular testing on Apple products along with analysis into internal logs to understand/identify root cause.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees