BT MAC System Engineer

At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? As a member of our Wireless Silicon Design group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to develop upcoming and future generations of products to support emerging applications that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers every single day! In this technical role, you will be at the center of our silicon design group responsible for the wireless systems design of our innovative wireless SoC products. You will have the chance to create algorithms and architectures of wireless communication systems, as well as collaborate with extraordinary HW, SW designers and architects to implement, verify, validate and bring up SoC products to production quality, providing them to millions of Apple customers!

Description

Core responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
Optimization of the BT flows to improve Power consumption.
Integration and Bring up of power use-cases. 
Bringing up, testing, characterizing and optimizing real silicon in the lab.
Analyzing and improving the efficiency of wireless MAC layer protocols, focusing on throughput, latency and overall network performance.
Implementing MAC system models and investigating algorithms for performance enhancements, design and validate them to allow performance sign-off and enable system developments. Defining the control procedures of the MAC layer hardware modules to achieve robust and optimal performance throughput and latency
Collaborating with PHY system team and cross-functional teams to integrate MAC layer algorithms into system architecture.
Collaborating with firmware designers to realize these methods with high efficiency software implementation and possibly with using hardware acceleration.
Documenting design processes and performance outcomes, providing detailed reports and insights for continuous improvements.

Minimum Qualifications

B.Sc / M.Sc in Electrical / Computer Engineering or related fields
5+ years of relevant experience
Working knowledge of wireless systems and hands-on experience with lab testing and characterization
Experience in Power flows employed in communication SOCs 
Experience with Python and/or C/C++ for algorithm development, modeling, simulation and test-bench infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

Strong understanding of BT MAC layer protocol
Working knowledge, involving hands-on experience of BT systems
Experience in crafting signal processing and wireless communications systems
Knowledge in existing wireless communication protocols, such as Bluetooth/BLE
Experience on bring up of real silicon in lab and being able to efficiently use lab equipment (such as spectrum analyzer, signal generator, power meter, etc.)
Experience in modem architecture, microprocessor architecture, hardware and software control
Experience of SoC design and validation to support wireless communication system
Experience on low-power algorithm design for power critical application
Experience with multi-radio coexistence management
Experience and knowledge on High-Level Synthesis (HLS), silicon prototyping, emulation systems and virtual platforms
Experience with network simulator such as OPNET, NS2 or NS3 is a plus