Wireless System Validation Engineer

Job description

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Minimum Qualifications: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Education and/or experience must include: Experience in RF Receiver (Rx) and Transmitter (Tx) chains and characterization. Performing RF hardware validation using RF lab equipment: Spectrum analyzer, Network analyzer, and Power meter. Optimizing RF parametric performance such as Adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR), Transmit Power, Power Added Efficiency (PAE), Input Third-Interception Point (IIP3) in various operating (linear and saturated power, digital pre-distortion (DPD)) conditions. Experience measuring RF parameters including gain, stability, phase noise, timing, EVM, tx mismatch/loadpull, spurious emission, small signal S-parameter and noise figure. Defining RF test conditions in automated test and bench test. Analyzing radio frequency (RF) component characteristics and behavior in cellular technologies. Experience with wireless technologies: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Global System for Mobile communications, (GSM), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), or New Radio (NR). Preferred Qualifications: N/A