Digital Hardware Engineer
Core
Design, implementation, and verification of baseband systems and digital interfaces for mobile Apple products.
Role type
Senior IC digital hardware engineer (wireless/silicon validation)
Builds
Wireless chipsets and system-on-chip designs for mobile devices
Domain
Consumer electronics / Wireless communications / Silicon validation
Required skills
SoC/PMU design, micro-architecture, silicon bring-up, post-silicon validation, high-speed memory systems, digital communication interfaces (PCIe, RFFE, SPMI, DDR, USB, SPI, I2C), hardware debugging, lab equipment usage (DSOs, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers), hardware/software co-debug
Preferred skills
Volume stress testing, reliability screening, production-level validation of wireless/modem chipsets, scripting (Lua, Python, C), firmware and device driver understanding