Wireless Design Verification Engineer

Apple • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

Join Apple’s Wireless Connectivity team developing WiFi SoCs for Apple products. The role focuses on verifying radio digital controllers combined with RF subsystems, contributing to first-time-right silicon through sophisticated testbenches, comprehensive scenarios, and verification methodologies.

The engineer develops verification environments for radio control and transceiver paths involving PLLs, DAC/ADC data paths, power management, and coexistence mechanisms. The work emphasizes digital verification while bridging to RF and analog domains, collaborating with Design, RF, PHY, and Systems teams to understand specifications and create test strategies. The engineer owns subsystem verification from test planning through coverage closure, building testbench components and scenarios for complex radio control sequences and operating modes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Understanding of ASIC verification flows using SystemVerilog, including UVM testbench development, scenario creation, and RTL simulation.
• Experience developing verification environments, bringing up designs in simulation, and debugging functional issues.
• Experience with digital design fundamentals in Verilog or VHDL.
• Experience with Python or similar scripting languages.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a collaborative approach to engineering challenges.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with digital controllers, subsystems, or data paths.
• Experience with constrained-random testing, functional coverage implementation, UVM methodology, and assertion-based verification.
• Exposure to mixed-signal modeling concepts, including real-number modeling.
• Exposure to RF/analog system design, such as LNAs, mixers, PLLs, amplifiers, LDOs, and DACs/ADCs.
• Proficiency with Python, Perl, Bash, or similar scripting for automation.
• Excellent communication skills, teamwork, and willingness to seek diverse technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Verify radio digital controllers and associated RF subsystems.
• Develop verification environments for radio control and transceiver paths, including PLLs, DAC/ADC data paths, power management, and coexistence mechanisms.
• Collaborate with Design, RF, PHY, and Systems teams to understand radio specifications and develop comprehensive test strategies.
• Own subsystem verification from test planning through coverage closure.
• Build testbench components and scenarios that exercise complex radio control sequences and operating modes.
• Bring up designs in simulation and debug functional issues.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time