RFIC - PLL Design Engineer

Job Summary

Summary Posted: Mar 14, 2025 Role Number: 20... Do you have a passion for invention and self-challenge? Do you thrive with pushing the limits of whats considered feasible. As part of an outstanding team, youll craft sophisticated, groundbreaking projects that deliver more performance in our products than ever before. Youll work across fields to transform improved hardware elements into a single, coordinated design. Join us, and youll help us innovate new technologies that continually outperform the previous iterations! By collaborating with other product development groups across Apple, youll push the industry boundaries of what wireless systems can do and improve the product experience for our customers worldwide. The wireless RFIC team architects, designs, and validates radio transceivers integrated into sophisticated wireless SoCs. Our wireless organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development that transform the user experience at the product level, all of which is driven by an outstanding vertically integrated engineering team spanning RF/Analog architecture and design, Systems/PHY/MAC, VLSI/RTL design and integration, Emulation, Design Verification, Test and Validation and FW/SW engineering. As an RFIC - PLL Design Engineer within the Wireless Radio team, you will be at the center of a wireless SoC design group with a critical impact on getting Apples groundbreaking wireless connectivity solutions into hundreds of millions of products!

Description

Description As an RFIC-PLL Designer, you will provide analog and digital PLL solutions for wireless SoC and drive them to mass production for Apple. Responsibilities include: - Lead design of radio transceiver chains including analog PLLs - VCOs, digital PLLs - DCOs, LOGen, and chain of blocks in RX, and TX for wireless connectivity products.- Drive radio KPI (power, area, performance) to meet product requirements - Work with multi-functional teams, including platform architecture, wireless design, RF HW, and SW, to define radio features enabling wireless innovation. - Work closely with RF Systems on block-level and high-level specifications of the PLL-LOGen, TX and RX line-ups and the accurate distribution of spec margins in the chain.- Design of RF and Analog loopbacks for calibration and compensation.- Work through Co-Existence scenarios and design to meet the CoEx requirements.- Lead all aspects of the floorplan layout and verification of the design to ensure a successful tape-out.- Provide design versus silicon measurements correlation and compliance with volume production specifications.

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