RFIC Design Engineer - Irvine, United States
Originally posted 20 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As an RFIC Design Engineer, you will be responsible for providing RFIC solutions for wireless SoC and driving them to mass production for Apple’s wireless connectivity products. The wireless RFIC team architects, develops, and validates radio transceivers integrated into wireless SoCs.
What you'll do
- Architect, develop, and validate radio transceivers integrated into wireless SoCs. - Deliver RFIC solutions and drive designs through to mass production for wireless connectivity products. - Collaborate across engineering teams spanning RF/analog architecture, Systems/PHY/MAC, VLSI/RTL design, emulation, verification, test, and FW/SW. - Design RF, analog, and mixed-signal blocks including LNAs, PAs, PLL/VCO/DCO/LOGEN blocks, mixers, baseband filters, amplifiers, and data converters. - Implement calibration methods associated with wireless transceiver systems.
What you'll need
- BS degree with 10+ years of relevant industry experience. - Direct experience in designing and bringing wireless transceivers into mass production in deep sub-micron RFCMOS technology. - Deep understanding of analog design concepts such as noise, linearity, mismatch, stability, and other analog impairments. - Deep understanding of analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit design, including LNAs, PAs, PLL/VCO/DCO/LOGEN blocks, mixers, baseband filters, amplifiers, data converters, and calibration methods. - Hands-on experience with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, and EM simulation tools (EMX, HFSS).
Nice to have
- MSEE or PhD with relevant industry experience. - 10+ years of RF/analog and mixed-signal design experience in RF CMOS design. - Familiarity with RF transceiver architectures, trade-offs, system specifications, and translating system requirements into IC-level circuit requirements. - Proven capability working with digital design groups for optimum partitioning between digital and analog domains. - Familiarity with integration flows and challenges of wireless SoCs. - Extensive experience in silicon characterization and debug, alongside production test/QA methodologies.
Skills: RFIC, RFCMOS, LNA, PA, Spectre RF, Virtuoso
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 59-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
259
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$165k
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| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (259 roles · 33 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 27 | 259 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 52 | 1420 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 14 d | 59 d (−45 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
Skills observed across this category: RFIC, RFCMOS, LNA, PA, Spectre RF, Virtuoso
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO · 43 open roles · median 50 d
- Skyworks · 39 open roles · median 55 d
- Keysight Technologies · 27 open roles · median 118 d
- Qualcomm · 23 open roles · median 103 d
- Apple (this employer) · 18 open roles · median 24 d
- Analog Devices · 11 open roles · median 66 d
How we counted: 259 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 33 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 Oct 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.