RF Design Engineer – Next-Gen Wireless
About the role
As a senior member of the Product RF Design team, you will focus on RF architecture, design, integration, and manufacturing for consumer wireless products. You will use electromagnetic and system simulation, prototyping, and lab measurement to address complex subsystem interactions from concept through mass production.
What you'll do
- Execute RF and antenna design across the entire product development lifecycle from concept to mass production.
- Apply electromagnetic and system simulation to analyze complex system and subsystem interactions.
- Perform hands-on prototyping, testing, and RF measurement to evaluate product-level design and manufacturing trade-offs.
- Resolve complex technical issues across RF architecture, circuit design, and wireless communications.
- Guide junior engineers and build technical capability within the engineering team.
What you'll need
- BSEE or equivalent education.
- 6+ years of experience in antenna/RF design in consumer products.
- Demonstrated ownership of RF/antenna design through at least one full product cycle, from concept to mass production.
- Strong foundation in antenna/RF design, wireless communications, EM theory, or circuit design.
- Deep knowledge of EM or RF hardware and antenna design.
Nice to have
- Master's or above in Electrical Engineering with an Electromagnetics or RF emphasis.
- Advanced proficiency with electromagnetic simulation tools.
- Extensive hands-on experience with RF lab instrumentation.
- Proven ability to debug desense issues and characterize noise sources independently.
- Experience driving production-environment problem solving and statistical analysis.
- Experience mentoring or technically leading other engineers.
Skills: Antenna Design, RF Design, EM Simulation, Desense, Wireless
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 55-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
267
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Median days since first seen
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$166k
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| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (267 roles · 36 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 35 | 267 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 71 | 1537 · 117 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 21 d | 55 d (+34 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $166k |
Skills observed across this category: Antenna Design, RF Design, EM Simulation, Desense, Wireless
Who's hiring in this category
- Skyworks · 53 open roles · median 48 d
- Apple (this employer) · 38 open roles · median 21 d
- Keysight Technologies · 33 open roles · median 56 d
- Qualcomm · 23 open roles · median 125 d
- MACOM · 17 open roles · median 14 d
- Analog Devices · 12 open roles · median 73 d
How we counted: 267 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 36 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.