Apple
RFIC System Engineer
$129K–$225K
San Francisco Bay Area, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree.
About the job
Develop and productize RF CMOS wireless radios by translating system specifications into block requirements, modeling analog impairments, and validating design performance.
What you'll do
- Translate chip- or transceiver-level specifications into block-level specifications and model analog impairments affecting transceiver performance.
- Collaborate with design engineers on bottom-up modeling to ensure blocks meet system requirements; oversee test, characterization, and debugging through productization.
- Work with the technology team to understand process-node capabilities and limits for optimizing performance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree.
- RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in RF CMOS design.
- Experience with MATLAB, python, SystemVue, or other system-level modeling.
Nice to have
- Modeling RF/analog circuits and writing block-level specifications; direct tape-out experience with RF or baseband analog blocks in deep sub-micron CMOS.
- Knowledge of RF transceiver architectures and analog design concepts, CMOS device physics and RF modeling, silicon characterization, or Bluetooth, WiFi, and Ultra-Wideband standards.
Pay
$129,300 and $225,300 (base salary)
Tools
MATLAB, python, SystemVue, Verilog-A
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