Apple
Wireless PHY Systems Engineer — Pre-Silicon Emulation
$185K–$325K
San Francisco Bay Area, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 10 years of relevant experience; minimum qualification specifies a bachelor's degree, while the preferred qualification specifies a master's degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree; preferred: Master's degree.
About the job
Own and evolve the pre-silicon emulation infrastructure for wireless SoCs, and support Bluetooth and UWB silicon validation and lab bring-up.
What you'll do
- Validate each Palladium emulation build and develop reusable infrastructure for initialization, boot, register maps, clocks, resets, and system configuration.
- Support pre-silicon testing, debugging, and performance characterization across silicon generations.
- Bring up, test, characterize, and optimize Bluetooth and UWB silicon in the lab.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
- Foundation in DSP and wireless communications, with working knowledge of PHY and MAC concepts and familiarity with wireless RF impairments.
- Proficiency in MATLAB and C/C++ for system modeling, simulation, and test.
- Experience or knowledge of Bluetooth, UWB, or other wireless protocols; experience collecting, processing, and visualizing simulation and test datasets.
Nice to have
- Master's degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
- Relevant experience in wireless chip or modem development, Bluetooth/UWB validation, emulation or FPGA prototyping, RTL, lab bring-up, or validation infrastructure.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base pay range; no ISO currency code stated)
Tools
Palladium, MATLAB, C/C++, Bluetooth, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Verilog/VHDL, High-Level Synthesis (HLS), Python
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