Wireless Silicon Debug and Characterization Engineering Manager - Shanghai, China
Originally posted 4 October 2026 by the employer.
This role involves bringing up and debugging new wireless silicon and improving calibration and trim.
About the role
This role involves building and leading a small engineering team focusing on RF, PHY/wireless system, and firmware expertise. You will be hands-on in the lab, bringing up and debugging new wireless silicon, and improving calibration and trim.
What you'll do
- Lead a team that brings up, characterizes, debugs, calibrates, and trims wireless SoCs from first silicon through mass production.
- Solve problems spanning PHY algorithms, RF circuits, firmware, and test setup.
- Provide silicon-level root-cause analysis to manufacturing support teams for wireless SoC production issues.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience leading engineers or technical teams.
- Experience in wireless system design, integration, or bring-up of wireless silicon.
- Experience in RF test development, hands-on debug, performance characterization, and reporting.
- Experience with RF, PLL, and wireless system measurements (e.g., IP3, NF, ACPR, phase noise, lock time) using network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, and signal generators.
- Experience writing scripts in Python, Perl, TCL, C++, or similar languages to automate test equipment and data analysis.
- Proficiency in Mandarin and English.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- Experience bringing up radio calibration algorithms such as power control, IQ imbalance, LO leakage, or TSSI.
- Knowledge of wireless communication protocols (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be, Bluetooth, or UWB) at the MAC/PHY level.
- Experience with embedded firmware (C, ARM CPUs, RTOS), including low-level drivers, diagnostics, and manufacturing test software.
Skills: wireless silicon debug, RF test development, performance characterization, RF measurements, wireless communication protocols
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
265
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$162k
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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 (265 roles · 34 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 20 | 265 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 41 | 1400 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 20 d | 51 d (−31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $162k |
Skills observed across this category: wireless silicon debug, RF test development, performance characterization, RF measurements, wireless communication protocols
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO · 46 open roles · median 35 d
- Skyworks · 41 open roles · median 40 d
- Keysight Technologies · 24 open roles · median 174 d
- Qualcomm · 24 open roles · median 102 d
- Apple (this employer) · 20 open roles · median 19 d
- Analog Devices · 12 open roles · median 57 d
How we counted: 265 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 34 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 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.