Wireless FPGA Prototype Design Engineer
Apple
Design
San Francisco, CA, USA · Oregon, USA · San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA · Multiple locations
USD 181,100-318,400 / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 24, 2025
Would you like to join Apple’s growing wireless silicon development team? Our wireless SOC organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development with a particular emphasis on highly energy efficient/low-power design and new technologies that transform the user experience at the product level, all of which is driven by a world class vertically integrated engineering teams.
As a Wireless ASIC/FPGA Prototyping Design Engineer, you will work in a team developing signal processing intensive design for wireless communication SoCs. You will be at the center of the silicon design group with a meaningful role getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. Wouldn’t you love a dynamic, yet challenging role as a Wireless FPGA Prototype Design Engineer here at Apple?
- As a Wireless ASIC/FPGA Prototyping Design Engineer, you will work in a team developing signal processing intensive design for wireless communication SoCs, including:
- - ASIC prototyping from requirement to implementation and lab debug
- - FPGA synthesis, define timing constraints, timing closure
- - Maintain common design platform for ASIC as well as FPGA, with considerations for memories, I/O pads, gated clocks and complex generated clocks
- - Bring-up, debug and test FPGA/emulation model and collaterals in the lab
- - Support pre-Silicon and post-silicon validation and collaborate
- BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience
- Experience in FPGA flow
- Knowledge of digital design, chip architecture and microarchitecture
- Experience in Scripting and modeling language experience (Shell, C, Python or Perl)
- Hand on experience in lab equipment, hardware bring-up and debug in lab
- Strong background in computer architecture and wireless applications, with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Bus fabric and peripherals, APB/AHB/AXI, USB, I2C, SPI and JTAG
- System debug architecture
- Wireless standards, such as IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth
- Familiar with AMD’s flow including design entry in Verilog, synthesis, place and route, timing constraints and timing closure
- Hands on experience with lab equipment, such as JTAG, oscilloscope, logic analyzer and LitePoint
- Solid skill in problem solving, FW/HW development
- Experience with emulation platform, such as Palladium
- Excellent communication skills and self-motivation
- Ability to collaborate and drive production test/QA methodologies
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