Wireless SoC RF Integration and Validation Engineer - Irvine, United States
Originally posted 15 October 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on RF integration for Wireless SoC development.
About the role
This role involves delivering an end-to-end RF integration solution, including DUT control development, pre-silicon emulation/simulation, and integrated RF calibration, bridging design development to mass production.
What you'll do
- Deliver an RF integration end-to-end Solution, including DUT control development.
- Perform pre-silicon emulation/simulation and integrated RF calibration.
- Enable different phases from design development toward Apple product's mass production.
- Be responsible for Wireless SoC-RF Bring up at the first touch.
- Ensure final Silicon validation results and compliance.
- Develop technical depth in HW and SW domains, including wireless transceiver architecture and RF system knowledge.
What you'll need
- BS degree and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
- Understanding of wireless transceiver architecture.
- RF system and DSP knowledge.
- Software framework experience.
- RF driver and embedded system experience.
- Experience of delivery Apple products until productization.
Nice to have
- Solid experience of RF parametric testing, such as IP3, NF, ACPR, phase noise, load pull.
- Strong working knowledge of RF test equipments, such as network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, vector signal analyzer, vector signal generator.
- Strong Wireless RF background and familiarity with RF systems fundamentals, RF transceiver architectures and/or digital communication.
- Proficiency with understanding RFIC block-level design schematics.
- Some experience of RF PCB board design, debug, and development.
- Python programming language experience.
- Experience with embedded system and C programming language.
- Automation framework development experience.
Skills: RF parametric testing, RF test equipments, RF systems fundamentals, RFIC block-level design, Wireless SoC
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 57-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
260
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$164k
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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 (260 roles · 33 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 21 | 260 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 46 | 1413 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 30 d | 57 d (−27 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $164k |
Skills observed across this category: RF parametric testing, RF test equipments, RF systems fundamentals, RFIC block-level design, Wireless SoC
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO · 43 open roles · median 46 d
- Skyworks · 40 open roles · median 51 d
- Keysight Technologies · 26 open roles · median 125 d
- Qualcomm · 24 open roles · median 113 d
- Apple (this employer) · 17 open roles · median 29 d
- Analog Devices · 12 open roles · median 68 d
How we counted: 260 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 33 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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.