Wireless PHY Systems Engineer, Pre-Silicon Emulation

Apple Inc

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San Francisco, CA
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$184,700–$324,800 / yr
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11 days ago
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TL;DR · Wireless PHY Systems Engineer, Pre-Silicon Emulation

Wireless PHY Systems Engineer — Pre-Silicon Emulation The Wireless PHY Systems Engineer joins the wireless silicon development team to de-risk silicon designs before tape-out by owning the pre-silicon emulation environment. This role involves performing early smoke and sanity testing on Palladium emulation builds, designing infrastructure for register maps, initialization sequences, and clock and reset setups. The engineer will build reusable tools to abstract platform complexity, enabling broader design verification. Key responsibilities include supporting pre-silicon emulation for silicon validation and performing lab bring-up, testing, and characterization for Bluetooth and UWB silicon. Required skills include Digital Signal Processing, PHY and MAC layer concepts, MATLAB, C/C++, and knowledge of RF impairments like phase noise. Candidates should also possess experience with wireless standards, data visualization, and potentially RTL, Python, or High-Level Synthesis.

What you'll do

  • Perform early smoke and sanity testing on each released Palladium emulation build to confirm functionality.
  • Design and own the framework for register maps, initialization sequences, clock, and reset configurations.
  • Abstract platform bring-up complexity into reusable infrastructure and tooling for the wider design team.
  • Maintain and extend the emulation infrastructure across multiple successive silicon generations.
  • Develop tests and perform debug and performance characterization on emulation platforms for silicon validation.
  • Bring up, test, characterize, and optimize Bluetooth and UWB silicon in a lab environment.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
  • Master's degree with 10 years of relevant experience (preferred).
  • Solid foundation in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and wireless communications, including PHY and MAC layer concepts.
  • Hands-on software programming skills in MATLAB and C/C++ for system modeling, simulation, and test.
  • Familiarity with analog/RF impairments such as phase noise, IQ imbalance, and nonlinearity.
  • Experience with wireless standards like Bluetooth, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), or other wireless protocols.
  • Experience collecting, processing, and visualizing large-scale simulation and test datasets.
  • Hands-on experience in wireless chip/modem development, RTL (Verilog/VHDL), and pre-silicon emulation (preferred).

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