Cellular RF Transmitter Systems Engineer

Apple • Waltham, MA

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About The Position

Apple’s RF Transmitter Systems Engineering team is seeking a talented engineer to help develop transmitter architectures and solutions for Apple wireless products. The role contributes to assessing, specifying, and driving transmitter concepts focused on leading-edge performance and high quality. The engineer works closely with architecture and systems engineering, RF design, and software teams to deliver differentiating products.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of relevant industry experience, including 5 or more years of relevant RF experience involving cellular transmit architectures; alternatively, a Ph.D. with previous work on cellular topics.
• Knowledge of cellular radio and 3GPP standards, including GSM, UMTS, LTE, LTE-A, and 5G NR, including RF aspects, system use cases, and TX waveforms.
• Familiarity with RF systems, RF front-end components (power amplifiers, filters, switches, and power management), and transceiver architecture, including lineup design and trade-offs such as gain, linearity, noise, power, and thermal performance.
• Experience with hardware and software co-design and understanding of trade-offs between analog and digital hardware and firmware implementations.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proactive use of AI tools.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate across multicultural, global teams.

Nice To Haves

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Knowledge of translating top-level RF requirements into specifications for RF front-end and transceiver architecture and building blocks.
• Initial expertise in RF transmitter system-level concepts, control and data translation into modulations, and control procedures such as power control, digital predistortion, and envelope tracking.
• RF front-end and RFIC system modeling and simulation experience.
• Expertise in RF front-end architectures, technologies, and design.
• Knowledge of digital signal processing and mixed-signal circuit design.
• Understanding of SoC integration constraints and multi-chip RF architectures.

Responsibilities

• Assess, specify, and drive cellular transmitter concepts with a focus on performance and product quality.
• Collaborate with architecture and systems engineering teams, RF design teams, and software teams.
• Contribute to transmitter architectures and solutions for Apple wireless products.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior