Wireless PHY Design Verification Engineer

Apple • San Diego, CA

5d

About The Position

Join Apple's Wireless Connectivity team developing WiFi SoCs for Apple products. The role contributes to a vertically integrated organization working on next-generation wireless technology from concept through production. The engineer verifies sophisticated WiFi PHY digital systems, including time- and frequency-domain processing, hardware acceleration, calibration engines, and protocol implementation. They develop verification strategies for high-rate, low-power, low-latency, and multi-link wireless features across Apple's product ecosystem. The role owns subsystem verification from test planning through coverage closure, including building verification environments, developing constrained-random scenarios, and applying analytics methodologies to support successful wireless silicon.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Track record of several tapeout cycles of sophisticated designs.
• Experience verifying wireless, DSP, or digital communication systems.
• Knowledge of ASIC verification flows with SystemVerilog and UVM, including testbench architecture, scenario creation, and coverage-driven methodologies.
• Experience developing verification environments, bringing up complex designs, and debugging simulations.
• Experience with constrained-random testing, functional coverage implementation, and assertion-based verification.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of IEEE 802.11 wireless protocols, Bluetooth, cellular, or similar communication systems.
• Experience applying or integrating system models using DPIs.
• Understanding of DSP algorithm verification strategies, including bit/cycle matching and assertions.
• Experience with transaction-level modeling, including packet-based approaches such as scoreboarding and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Verify WiFi PHY digital systems, including time- and frequency-domain processing, hardware acceleration, calibration engines, and protocol implementation.
• Architect verification strategies for wireless features.
• Own subsystem verification from test planning through coverage closure.
• Build verification environments and constrained-random scenarios.
• Apply analytics methodologies to deliver wireless silicon.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time