Cellular Systems Engineer PHY Simulations and Base Station Modeling

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Aug 1, 2024
Role Number:200560717
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish! Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of Apple’s customers every single day. Wireless technologies have become a crucial part of all Apple devices that delight our customers. With the latest developments in cellular, we apply a sophisticated simulation platform to study performance of our devices in complicated radio and network conditions and gain insights for system design. We are looking for an expert PHY Systems Engineer who has a deep understanding of wireless technology. In this role you will be at the center of a silicon design group responsible for physical layer system and algorithm design for pioneering wireless SoC products, with a focus in wireless system design, modeling, and simulations.

DESCRIPTION

In this role, you will take part in the pioneering work of creating and developing simulation models for innovative PHY signal processing and control algorithms which enable cellular modem system design and verification for very high-data rate applications.

• BS and 3 + years of relevant experience.
• Collaborate across functional teams to define and document project requirements, concepts, model architecture, interfaces and APIs.
• Design and implement 4G/5G PHY models for pre-silicon simulation and verification.
• Perform functional and performance verification of the PHY models using internal and 3rd Party test tools as well as test data provided by external network vendors.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Contribute to link-level simulator modeling, meaningful metric testing and Base Station Model architecture and design.
• Define PHY test cases for new features and drive bring-up and issue resolution.
• Design and develop robust multi-threaded algorithms with hard real-time constraints, leveraging multi-core processors.
• Perform real-time profiling and optimization, including necessary redesign of existing implementations.

• BS and 3 + years of relevant experience.
• Collaborate across functional teams to define and document project requirements, concepts, model architecture, interfaces and APIs.
• Design and implement 4G/5G PHY models for pre-silicon simulation and verification.
• Perform functional and performance verification of the PHY models using internal and 3rd Party test tools as well as test data provided by external network vendors