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 and Compliance Engineering team is looking for an RF Compliance Validation Engineer to perform RF regulatory characterization and demonstrate regulatory compliance for new Apple products with advanced radio technologies.
Description
• You will validate emission test cases for different regulatory domains in certification test setups.
• You will translate world-wide emission requirements into test cases and coordinate those with Regulatory Compliance teams to ensure that product validation covers all certification tests.
• You will define and implement validation plans for regulatory-facing software features.
• You will perform debugging of marginal/failure tests and will interact with multi-functional teams like RFHW/Antenna/Product Design/EE to drive design changes and address issues.
• You will maintain test setups via periodic checks and calibration.
• You will help Regulatory Compliance teams in planning and delivering final certification testing at 3rd party test labs.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree required.
Experience and in-depth understanding of System Transceiver RF Parametric and RF component level characteristics and behaviors.
Working experience with lab equipment including network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and call boxes (i.e., CMW/8960/UXM).
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree preferred.
Detailed understanding of at least one Wireless technology including 5G FR1, FR2, GSM, UMTS, CDMA, LTE, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax and Bluetooth.
Understanding of Antenna characteristics impact to radiated testing.
Familiarity with radiated test setups, radiated chamber calibration and use.
Proficiency in MATLAB programming, or, ADS, CST, HFSS simulation.
Knowledge on worldwide Regulatory standards in relation to carry a product to certification.
Responsibilities
Characterization of Apple wireless products towards compliance of WW requirements.
Perform initial HW/SW bring up on Prototype Hardware.
Review World-wide Wireless Regulatory/Compliance specs and develop test plans.
Define RF Test Automation requirements & work with internal automation team towards automation development.
Collaborate with fellow team members towards debugging / resolution of Wireless compliance related HW issues.
Collaborate with HW Design, FEM Vendors, Chipset vendors, Antenna, and Product design teams to come up with HW fixes.
Perform Schematic/layout reviews and HW fixes via mockups.
Driving Chipset design requirements based on RF/Regulatory compliance requirements.
Defining & implementing various SW/FW features including Regulatory Power tables.
Perform RF/EM Simulations for Schematic/Layout using various simulation tools.
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