About the role
AI summarisedField Design Engineer at Apple responsible for evaluating unreleased iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch hardware systems from prototype to final product. Role involves field testing on various wireless technologies, performance analysis, and debugging hardware/software issues with focus on RF/OTA, acoustics, thermals, GPS, and NFC validation.
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Key Responsibilities
- Evaluating the latest iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch hardware systems in the field from early prototype to final products
- Testing on different network and wireless technologies
- Creating and evolving performance metrics
- Post processing and analysis of device logs from the field
- Running focused experiments in relationship to RF/OTA performance, acoustics, thermals, GPS and NFC validation
- Working with HW/SW development teams and other cross functional teams on identifying issues impacting wireless performance
- Performing deep dive analysis into internal logs to understand and identify root cause of any HW/System issue
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent major with 1-5 years relevant work experience
- Hands-on experience with end to end testing of cellular technologies that includes test plan preparation, field testing, log analysis & debugging UE issues
- Working knowledge in at least one of the wireless technology 5G NR, LTE/LTE-A, UMTS
- Experience owning a complete functional area of an application or product with clear communication across multiple levels in the organization
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detailed oriented, analytical, able to work independently
- Able to travel locally and internationally
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent major
- Deep understanding of cellular protocol stack from LTE PHY/MAC to higher layers, Call processing
- Hardworking and ambitious, able to take on obstacles in innovative ways
- Knowledge of Antenna/ RF design
- Basic scripting experience (Shell/Perl/Python/Matlab)