SummaryPosted: Aug 20, 2024
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200534282Would 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 related to complex usages, 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 a silicon design group, responsible for physical layer and cross-layer algorithm designs for innovative wireless communication systems that demand low latency, very high data rates, high efficiency, reliability, and low power consumption. You will apply signal processing, communication and information theory, as well as probability and random processes techniques to architect and design innovative algorithms for receivers and transmitters.
DescriptionIn this role, you will demonstrate strong analytical skills, innovative thinking, and fundamental knowledge to design creative algorithms, innovative architectures, and protocols, to resolve challenges and develop best-in-class solutions in terms of performance, power, and area. You will collaborate closely with HW digital designers, RF/analog designers, and SW teams to define and specify the wireless systems. Core responsibilities include:
- Designing and simulating innovative wireless communication systems to enable emerging applications and wireless system products.
- Implementing system models and investigating innovative algorithms for performance enhancements, designing and validating them to allow performance sign-off and enable RTL development.
- Implementing system models for the wireless communication system, RF/circuit impairments, and designing methods/algorithms to alleviate those impairments through calibration, pre-equalization, canceller, and/or pre-distortion techniques.
- Defining 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.
- Working with digital designers to realize these methods with power and area-efficient digital implementations.
- Collaborating with firmware designers to implement these methods with high-efficiency software implementation, and possibly with hardware acceleration.
- Bringing up, testing, characterizing, and optimizing real silicon in the lab.
Key Qualifications- 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, communication theory, and information theory techniques to resolve challenging problems in physical layer design (transmitter/receiver) 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.
- Deep understanding of components/modules in wireless communication systems, including possible impairments and corresponding calibration and impairment reduction methods/algorithms, digital predistortion, and Tx power control.
- Algorithm development experience with hardware and firmware-friendly designs.
- 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.
Education & ExperienceBS and 10+ years of relevant experience required. MS and PhD preferred.
Additional RequirementsPay & BenefitsAt 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 $166,600 and $296,300, depending on 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. Benefits include comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounts on products and services, and reimbursement for certain educational expenses related to career advancement. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation assistance. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefits, compensation, and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
More- 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.
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