Cellular Field Design Engineer, Apple
$117.8-205.5k
Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
Personal technology company
Open for applications
Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$117.8-205.5k
Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in an Engineering Field or three years of equivalent practical experience
- Basic knowledge of Cellular Systems (Examples: Cellular Architecture, 4G and 5G systems, Digital Communications)
Desirable
- Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering
- Understanding of Wireless RF fundamentals
- Experience with Cellular field validation across 3G, 4G, and 5G systems
- Experience with end to end testing, post-processing and analysis of LTE and NR communications system issues
- Log analysis of Voice and Data Call issues, including understanding various layers of the wireless protocol stack, like Phy, MAC, RLC, PDCP, etc
- Performing comprehensive technical reviews of new cellular features and disseminating them to the field engineering organization
- Great communication skills and ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams and partners
What the job involves
- We are the Apple Field Design Engineering team, and we are looking for a highly motivated Cellular Field Design Engineer responsible for conducting Field evaluations of Apple products, from early prototypes to final products, to deliver the best Cellular end-user experience
- You will perform deep-dive analysis into internal logs to understand and identify issue root causes and drive them to closure by collaborating closely with wireless HW/SW test and development teams
- You'll evaluate the latest iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch Cellular systems in the field! This includes very early evaluations of our Prototypes and HW Systems on Cellular technologies
- It also includes focused experiments related to RF/OTA performance and Wireless Baseband performance and conducting end-user-centric studies to characterize real-world cellular experience
- Cellular Field validation of Apple Products on live networks for critical technologies like 3G, 4G, NR (SA/NSA)
- Conduct testing on key cellular functionality, Voice, Data throughput, and User Experience
- Conduct focused field studies to evaluate Antenna/RF performance in near cell, mixed and marginal coverage environments
- Analyse voice and data call issues across different layers of Cellular protocol stack like Phy, Mac, RLC, PDCP, RRC, NAS, and TCP layers
- Weekly Hours: 40
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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