Apple
RFIC Design Engineer
$135K–$278K
Irvine, California +3 · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Irvine, California
San Diego, California
Sunnyvale, California
Waltham, Massachusetts - Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS; MSEE and PhD plus relevant industry experience preferred.
About the job
Designs, validates, and takes wireless RFIC transceiver circuits for wireless SoCs from concept through mass production.
What you'll do
- Design RFIC transceiver blocks and chains, including TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen, from architecture and transistor-level studies through simulation and extraction.
- Coordinate with RF Systems on specifications and margins; design RF and analog loopbacks and address coexistence requirements.
- Collaborate on chip test, productization, silicon measurement correlation, debugging, and volume-production specification compliance.
What they ask for
- BS degree.
- Understanding of analog design concepts, including noise, linearity, mismatch, and stability.
- Experience with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, and EM simulation tools such as EMX or HFSS.
- Expertise in analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit design, and experience in silicon characterization and debugging.
Nice to have
- MSEE or PhD plus relevant industry experience; experience taking wireless transceivers into mass production.
- RF transceiver architecture and system-specification knowledge; modulation impacts, analog/digital partitioning, or mixed-signal verification familiarity.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 (USD, base salary); $150,400 and $277,600 (USD, base salary); $134,700 and $249,500 (USD, base salary)
Tools
Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EMX, HFSS, SystemVerilog, AMS, Nanotime
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