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Wireless PHY Design Verification Engineer

Apple

Location

San Diego, CA, Sunnyvale, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/8/2026

Compensation

Not listed

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.0% approval+30% YoY
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Job description

Join Apple's Wireless Connectivity team as a Wireless PHY Design Verification Engineer, where you will develop advanced WiFi SoCs that are integral to Apple products worldwide. You will be part of a vertically integrated organization focused on shaping next-generation wireless technology from concept to production. Your role will involve ensuring silicon success through sophisticated testbenches and comprehensive verification methodologies. This position emphasizes the verification of high-rate, low-power wireless features across Apple's product ecosystem.

Requirements

  • Minimum requirement of a bachelor's degree.
  • Track record of several tapeout cycles of sophisticated designs.
  • Experience verifying wireless, DSP, or digital communication systems.
  • Knowledge of ASIC verification flows with SystemVerilog / UVM including testbench architecture, scenario creation, and coverage-driven methodologies.
  • Experience developing verification environments, bringing up complex designs, and debugging simulations.
  • Experience with constrained random testing, functional coverage implementation, and assertion-based verification.
  • Knowledge of IEEE 802.11 wireless protocols, Bluetooth, Cellular, or similar communication systems.
  • Experience with applying / integrating System models utilizing DPIs.
  • Understanding of DSP algorithms verification strategies including Bit / Cycle matching and Assertions.
  • Experience with transaction-level modeling including packet-based approaches.

Responsibilities

  • Verify sophisticated WiFi PHY digital systems spanning time/frequency-domain processing and hardware acceleration.
  • Architect verification strategies for advanced wireless features enabling applications across Apple's product ecosystem.
  • Own subsystem verification from test planning through coverage closure.
  • Build environments and constrained random scenarios for verification.
  • Apply analytics methodologies to deliver exceptional wireless silicon.

Benefits

  • Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Apple Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

1,065

FY2026

Approval rate

99.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

9,221

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+30%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-35%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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