RF System Integration Engineer (Instrument Engineering) - Cupertino, United States
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on designing and producing precision RF and analog test equipment used for cellular (5G/4G), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mmWave, UWB, and NFC radios.
About the role
This role involves designing and producing precision RF and analog test equipment for calibrating and validating radios across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch units. You will take internal products from concept to mass production, ensuring accuracy and reliability at production scale.
What you'll do
- Characterize and troubleshoot RF measurement systems on the bench.
- Develop and maintain automated test and calibration software.
- Partner across hardware, software, and customer teams.
- Debug RF problems and write automation to prevent recurrence.
- Provide RF applications support and customer engagement.
What you'll need
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- 3–4 years of hands-on experience in RF, wireless, or test/measurement engineering.
- Strong RF fundamentals and ability to debug RF problems using standard RF test equipment (signal generators, analyzers, VNAs, power sensors).
- Proven experience developing automated test software in Python and/or C++.
- Willingness to travel internationally up to 15%.
Nice to have
- Experience with RF system calibration methods, procedures, and traceability.
- Recent experience analyzing RF parameters in Python or MATLAB (power, return loss, S-parameters, EVM, ACLR, IQ mismatch, statistics).
- Working knowledge of DSP and communications theory.
- Familiarity with cellular (55G/4G), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mmWave, UWB, or NFC radio test and measurement.
- Familiarity with RF test equipment vendors (Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, NI, LitePoint, Anritsu).
- CI/CD experience and a track record of integrating automated tests into a pipeline.
- Hands-on experience using AI assistants and agentic coding workflows to design, write, and debug production-level engineering software.
- Experience applying AI/ML techniques to RF data analysis, modeling, or anomaly detection.
Skills: RF System Integration, RF fundamentals, RF test equipment, automated test software, cellular (5G/4G)
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 43-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
258
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Median days open
43 d
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Median salary
$165k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (258 roles · 34 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 20 | 258 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 31 | 1348 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 19 d | 43 d (−24 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
Skills observed across this category: RF System Integration, RF fundamentals, RF test equipment, automated test software, cellular (5G/4G)
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO · 48 open roles · median 35 d
- Skyworks · 39 open roles · median 29 d
- Qualcomm · 26 open roles · median 61 d
- Keysight Technologies · 22 open roles · median 162 d
- Apple (this employer) · 19 open roles · median 19 d
- Analog Devices · 13 open roles · median 39 d
How we counted: 258 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 34 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.