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As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of Apple’s customers every day.\nApple’s Wireless Systems and Compliance Engineering team is looking for a Wireless RF Hardware Engineer to do system engineering to ensure wireless regulatory compliance for new Apple products with advanced radio technologies.\nDescription\n- Apply wireless system design/characterization knowledge towards addressing emission regulatory requirements in consumer products.\n- Translate various emission requirements into system requirements for new chipsets and platforms.\n- Perform debugging of marginal/failure tests and will interact with multifunctional teams like RFHW/Antenna/Product Design/EE to drive design changes and address issues.\n- Perform HW failure analysis at the RF/wireless system level to identify root-cause of marginal/failing behaviors making use of hands-on experimental modifications to hardware.\n- Propose design and process changes for RSE issues considering design constraints and align with cross-functional partners like RFHW/Antenna/Product Design/EE on trade-offs and implementation path.\n- Review designs and sign-off on releases of PCB layouts, flex layouts, system level groundings, shielding.\n- Collaborate with cross-functional partners for circuit-level, system-level simulations to understand risk areas, root cause issues, and pre-fetch potential emission concerns.\n- Architect and coordinate execution of software features, which are necessary for regulatory compliance.\n- Pre-fetch potential emission concerns using simulation tools and schematic reviews.\n- Collaborate with the engineering teams to define emission test plans for custom features. 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