Wireless Systems and Algorithm Design Engineer
Would you like to join Apple’s growing wireless silicon development team? Our wireless SOC organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development, tackling challenges from complex usages to demanding performances and reliabilities to enable emerging wireless applications and products. Our goal is to develop novel architectures and protocols, integrated systems, and algorithms using advanced technologies to introduce innovative products that enhance our lives.
In this technical role, you will be at the center of our silicon design and bring-up group, responsible for the wireless system design of our innovative wireless SoC products. You will play a significant role in developing the next generations of wireless communication systems for enhanced performance and reliability, creating novel algorithms, protocols, and architectures. You will participate in cross-functional task forces comprising RF/analog, HW, SW, platform designers, and architects. This role includes wide responsibilities for implementation, verification, validation, and bringing our SoC products to production quality, providing them to our customers!
Description:
In this role, you will be required to demonstrate strong analytical skills, innovative thinking, and fundamental knowledge to design creative algorithms, innovative architectures, and protocols to resolve challenges and issues, developing best-in-class solutions in terms of performance, power, and area. You will collaborate closely with HW digital designers and architects, RF/analog designers, and SW teams to define and specify the wireless systems.
Core Responsibilities:
- Design and simulate innovative wireless communication systems to enable emerging applications and wireless system products.
- Implement system models and investigate innovative algorithms for performance enhancements, design, and validate them to allow performance sign-off and enable RTL development.
- Implement system models for the wireless communication system, addressing RF/circuit impairments.
- Design methods/algorithms to alleviate those impairments through calibration, pre-equalization, cancellation, and/or pre-distortion techniques.
- Define control procedures for physical layer hardware modules to achieve robust and optimal performance of the Modem in congested radio environments with co-existing wireless communication systems.
- Work with digital designers to realize these methods with power and area-efficient digital implementations.
- Collaborate with firmware designers to realize these methods with high-efficiency software implementation, and possibly with hardware acceleration.
- Bring up, test, characterize, and optimize real silicon in the lab.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.
- Extensive experience in designing and developing physical layer core algorithms, such as MIMO signal estimation and detection, channel estimation, equalization, coding theory, beamforming, timing recovery, frequency synchronization, and automatic gain control.
- Track record in applying innovative signal processing and communication theory techniques to resolve challenging problems in physical layer design for modern wireless communication systems.
- Deep understanding of communication theory, information theory, and signal processing related algorithms design.
- Strong analytical capability to develop best-in-class solutions in terms of performance, power, and area.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and Matlab for algorithm development, modeling, and simulation of the physical layer.
- Knowledge of existing protocols: 5G/LTE/WCDMA/GSM, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be, 802.11ad/ay, or Bluetooth/BLE.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MS and PhD preferred.
- Deep understanding of components/modules in wireless communication systems, including impairments and corresponding calibration and reduction methods.
- Algorithm development experience with hardware and firmware-friendly designs.
- Experience in modem architecture, microprocessor architecture, and hardware/software control.
- Experience in low-power algorithm design for power-critical applications.
- Experience with multi-radio coexistence management.
- Experience and knowledge of High-Level Synthesis (HLS), silicon prototyping, emulation systems, and virtual platforms.
- Experience in bringing up real silicon in the lab and efficiently using lab equipment (such as spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, etc.).
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $135,400 and $250,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become shareholders through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards and can purchase Apple stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and reimbursement for certain educational expenses related to advancing your career at Apple. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
#J-18808-Ljbffr