Job Description
Wireless System Validation Engineer
**Cupertino, California, United States**
**Hardware**
**Summary**
Posted: **May 08, 2025**
Weekly Hours: **40**
Role Number: **200602712**
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.
**Description**
APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Design and validate hardware for Telecommunication Systems. Assess platform-level performance across cellular technologies in the areas of industry conformance, regulatory compliance, carrier and use case requirements. Define test requirements, including designing, implementing in-house test systems and executing validation test cases. Perform failure analysis and make use of experimental SW/FW and mock-up hardware. Collaborate with test equipment vendors, technology suppliers and staff to optimize RF parametric performance. Track validation status, analyze results and communicate issues and insights from data. Perform bench-level wireless testing and debug module, reference board of system level. International Travel Required 5%. 40 hours/week. At 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 $192,438 - $214,500/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits:
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
**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.
+ Experience and/or education must include:
+ Analysis of RF component characteristics and behavior in cellular technologies
+ Wireless technologies: GSM, UMTS, LTE or 5GNR
+ Hardware testing using RF lab equipment: Spectrum analyzer, Network Analyzer, or Power Meter
+ Radio Frequency (RF) Receiver (Rx) and Transmitter (Tx) chains and characteristics such as Noise Figure (NF), IIP3, Transmit Power, and Gain.
+ Gain, PAE, ACLR, EVM, tx mismatch/loadpull, spurious emission, small signal S-parameter
+ Digital pre-distortion (DPD).
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ N/A
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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 ( .
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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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