Apple
RFIC Design Engineer
$142K–$214K
Irvine, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS; MSEE and PhD plus relevant industry experience preferred.
About the job
Designs, validates, and takes RFIC radio-transceiver circuits for wireless SoCs from concept through mass production.
What you'll do
- Design and simulate TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen blocks, including architecture, transistor-level feasibility, and power, area, and performance trade-offs.
- Collaborate with RF Systems and test engineers on specifications, calibration, coexistence requirements, and productization.
- Correlate designs with silicon measurements and verify specification compliance for volume production.
What they ask for
- BS degree and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in RF CMOS.
- Understanding of analog design concepts, including noise, linearity, mismatch, and stability.
- Experience with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EM simulation (EMX, HFSS), and similar tools; silicon characterization and debugging experience.
Nice to have
- MSEE and PhD plus relevant industry experience.
- Experience bringing wireless transceivers into mass production; familiarity with RF architectures, system specifications, and mixed-signal verification.
Pay
$142,300 and $214,300 USD base salary
Tools
Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EMX, HFSS, SystemVerilog, AMS, Nanotime
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