RF System Integration Manager

Apple

About The Position

Apple’s System RF team is seeking an RF System Integration Engineer to develop and optimize RF automation software systems for Apple products, including iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, across different wireless technologies. The role contributes to a multi-faceted software suite based on C/C++ and involves designing and validating RF calibration and testing algorithms for leading wireless standards. The position is responsible for designing, validating, and optimizing RF system-level performance and analyzing results with multifunctional teams to identify and root-cause RF issues. It calls for an inventive, hands-on engineer focused on accuracy, understandability, and product performance. The description also emphasizes deep wireless-protocol expertise, advanced test-system architecture, statistical-data-driven technical strategy, and leadership of high-performing engineering teams. The role partners across Hardware, Firmware, Operations, and EPM from early architecture through production, and requires navigating competing priorities and communicating technical trade-offs effectively.

Requirements

BSEE required.
Excellent fundamentals or proven experience in C/C++, Python, or a similar language.
Good knowledge of RF fundamentals and communications theory.
Good understanding and experience with RF metrics and impairment.
Basic knowledge of RF/wireless lab equipment.
Verbal and written English skills.
Deep domain expertise in wireless protocols, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, or UWB.
Proven experience architecting advanced test systems and using statistical data tools to drive technical strategy.
Demonstrated track record of leading, mentoring, and growing high-performing engineering teams.
Proven ability to collaborate across Hardware, Firmware, Operations, and EPM.
Ability to navigate competing priorities, resolve cross-functional trade-offs, and drive consensus under tight schedule and quality constraints.
Excellent communication and executive presence, including the ability to articulate technical trade-offs and influence across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize RF automation software systems for Apple products and wireless technologies.
Contribute to a multi-faceted software suite based on C/C++.
Design and validate RF calibration and testing algorithms for leading wireless standards.
Design, validate, and optimize RF system-level performance.
Analyze results with multifunctional teams to identify and root-cause RF issues.
Architect advanced test systems and use statistical data tools to drive technical strategy.
Lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams while fostering accountability and technical excellence.
Collaborate with Hardware, Firmware, Operations, and EPM from early architecture through production.
Navigate competing priorities, resolve cross-functional trade-offs, and drive consensus under schedule and quality constraints.
Communicate complex technical trade-offs and influence across organizational boundaries.