Wireless RF PHY FW Engineer

Join Apple's growing Wireless Connectivity Silicon team as a Wireless RF PHY FW Engineer to craft and implement embedded firmware for SoC bring up and wireless connectivity enablement. Work closely with product software and manufacturing teams to enable RF and PHY calibrations, algorithms and testing to enable productization of the silicon / system.

Requirements

• BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
• Strong background in embedded FW development using C and assembly languages
• Familiarity with ARM CPUs and its internals
• Good understanding of embedded wireless communication systems, Radio and PHY fundamentals and key RF performance metrics
• Familiarity with digital signal processing algorithms
• Experience with low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, bare-metal software development, clock and power management
• Solid understanding of basic embedded concepts such as RTOS, concurrency, multi-processor systems
• Fluency in using lab equipment such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters
• Experience implementing diagnostics, manufacturing tests, and protocol compliance software
• Knowledgeable of industry standards for wireless communications such as Bluetooth, WLAN, Zigbee, or UWB
• Proficient in at least one of the scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl
• Excellent communication skills – both written and oral