Wireless PHY Design Verification Engineer

Join Apple's Wireless Connectivity team developing state-of-the-art WiFi SoCs that power hundreds of millions of Apple products worldwide. You'll be part of our vertically integrated organization shaping next-gen wireless technology from concept through production. As a Wireless PHY Design Verification Engineer, you'll ensure first-time-right silicon success through sophisticated testbenches, comprehensive scenarios, and cutting-edge verification methodologies—enabling multi-gigabit wireless technology connecting the world!

Description

As a Wireless PHY Design Verification Engineer, you'll verify sophisticated WiFi PHY digital systems spanning time/frequency-domain processing, hardware acceleration, calibration engines, and protocol implementation. You'll architect verification strategies for high-rate, low-power, low-latency, and multi-link wireless features enabling advanced applications across Apple's product ecosystem. You'll own subsystem verification from test planning through coverage closure—building environments, constrained random scenarios, and applying analytics methodologies to deliver exceptional wireless silicon.

Minimum Qualifications

BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
Track record of several tapeout cycles of sophisticated designs.
Experience verifying wireless, DSP, or digital communication systems.
Knowledge of ASIC verification flows with SystemVerilog / UVM including testbench architecture, scenario creation, and coverage-driven methodologies.
Experience developing verification environments, bringing up complex designs, and debugging simulations.
Experience with constrained random testing, functional coverage implementation, and assertion-based verification.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of IEEE 802.11 wireless protocols, Bluetooth, Cellular, or similar communication systems.
Experience with applying / integrating System models utilizing DPIs.
Understanding of DSP algorithms verification strategies (Bit / Cycle matching, Assertions).
Experience with transaction-level modeling including packet-based approaches (scoreboarding, protocols).