Wireless RF Compliance Validation Engineer - Inductive Charging

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Feb 15, 2024
Role Number:200452730
At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? Do you like changing the game? As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of Apple’s customers every day! Apple’s Wireless Systems Compliance Engineering team is looking for a hardworking, proactive individual to take ownership for ensuring inductive charging products meet all worldwide Regulatory requirements!

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Key Qualifications

• Practical knowledge of inductive charging hardware, architectures and system considerations as it related to emissions.
• Experience with performing regulatory tests including spurious emissions, occupied bandwidth, frequency accuracy, spectral mask, etc. at either conducted or radiated environments.
• Experience with hands-on disassembly and making of experimental modifications to intricate hardware as part of debugging issues.
• Experience using lab equipment including spectrum analyzers, power meters, network analyzers, vector signal generators/analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• Working knowledge of EM and radiated theory inside portable wireless devices including accurate grounding, shielding, and radiated emissions mitigation techniques is a plus.

• Experience with circuit-level and system-level simulations is a bonus.Strong technical reporting, presentation and communication skills.

DESCRIPTION

Description
- You be responsible for assessing RF platform-level aspects of inductive charging towards regulatory compliance requirements, including: - Delivering validation & characterization test plans towards meeting world-wide regulatory emissions requirements. - Performing failure analysis to understand low margin or failing behaviors, making use of experimental SW/FW and modified development hardware. - Collaborating with multi-functional staff, technology suppliers and vendors to address marginal RF behavior, driving issues to closure. - Learning about all applicable inductive technologies and industry standards including Qi in relation to Apple products. - Tracking validation status; analyzing results; communicating issues & bringing insights from data. - Bringing-up device-under-test, helping to define test requirements and implementing test systems setups for validation preparedness. - Supporting Certification of Apple products.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Education & Experience
Bachelor’s Degree required.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Additional Requirements

Please refer the Job description for details