Cellular Field Design Engineer, Sandton

Summary At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming products, services, and customer experiences very quickly! Do you want to impact millions of users by developing an extra-ordinary product with a prime focus on accuracy, understandability and performance of the product? We are the Apple Field Design Engineering team, and we are seeking a highly motivated and technical individual to work on testing unreleased Apple products. Come join our team and become part of a hands‑on group that fosters engineering excellence, creativity and innovation. We are a team of multifaceted, encouraging people and innovative technologies are the norm here. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Description You will be responsible for evaluating the latest iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch hardware systems in the field from early prototype to final products. This will be on different network and wireless technologies, including performance metrics creation/evolution, post processing, and analysis of device logs from the field.

We are looking for someone who will work with the HW/SW development teams and other multi‑functional teams on identifying issues impacting the Cellular functionality and performance. You will perform HW and SW cellular testing on Apple products along with analysis into internal logs to understand/identify root cause.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent major

Hands‑on experience with end‑to‑end testing of cellular technologies that includes test plan preparation, field testing, log analysis&debugging issues

Working knowledge in at least one of the wireless technology - 5G NR, LTE/LTE‑A, UMTS

Availability to travel for work up to 30% of the year (domestic and sometimes internationally) without restrictions

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent major

Deep understanding of cellular protocol stack from LTE PHY/MAC to higher layers, call processing

Experience being responsible for 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

Knowledge of Antenna/ RF design

Basic scripting experience (Shell/Perl/Python/Matlab)

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Role Number: 200631477-3432

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