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 22 days — well below the 61-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
255
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
$165k
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| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (255 roles · 34 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 22 | 255 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 55 | 1461 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 12 d | 61 d (−49 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
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 · 41 open roles · median 57 d
- Skyworks · 37 open roles · median 60 d
- Keysight Technologies · 28 open roles · median 106 d
- Qualcomm · 23 open roles · median 110 d
- Apple (this employer) · 22 open roles · median 12 d
- Analog Devices · 10 open roles · median 73 d
How we counted: 255 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 34 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 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.