Apple
Wireless Silicon Validation Engineer
$116K–$203K
Waltham, Massachusetts · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree
About the job
Develop and run functional tests for wireless SoCs, debug silicon and hardware/software issues, and scale testing across pre-silicon and product environments.
What you'll do
- Develop, debug, and integrate bare-metal firmware tests for wireless chipsets, interfaces, power-management subsystems, and end-to-end stress testing.
- Debug issues found during testing with hardware design engineers and cross-functional teams.
- Build scalable test frameworks and support product development builds locally and remotely.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++.
- Experience with embedded software and hardware/software interaction.
- Familiarity with computer, system, or SoC architecture; experience or interest in writing code to test I/O devices or functional units.
Nice to have
- Assembly language programming; bench debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or DMMs; digital logic fundamentals.
- Basic WiFi or BT protocol knowledge.
Pay
USD $116,400 to $203,000 base salary
Tools
C/C++, bare-metal FW, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, DMMs, RTL/test-bench
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