Wi-Fi System Design and Integration Engineer

Wi‑Fi System Design and Integration Engineer

Do you have a passion for invention and self‑challenge? Do you thrive with pushing the limits of what’s considered feasible? As part of the Wi‑Fi Connectivity team, you’ll craft sophisticated, groundbreaking projects that deliver more performance in our products than ever before. You’ll work across fields to transform improved hardware elements into a single, coordinated design. Join us, and you’ll help us innovate new technologies that continually outperform the previous iterations!

By collaborating with other product development groups across Apple, you’ll push the industry boundaries of what wireless systems can do and improve the product experience for our customers worldwide.

We are seeking someone with Wi‑Fi System Design and Integration expertise to work on solutions for integrating protocols and architectures to maximize performances and resource efficiency. This role focuses on analyzing protocol features, coming up with integration and architecting strategies for solutions, validating performance improvements, using simulations, modeling and prototyping. You will evaluate solution performance, quantify user benefits, analyze implementation costs, and work cross‑functionally to drive solution development from proof‑of‑concept through product bring‑up and optimizations.

Your solutions directly enhance the connectivity experience for millions of Apple customers.

As Wi‑Fi technology advances with new protocols (Wi‑Fi 8, Wi‑Fi 9) and evolving application demands for performances, this role requires an engineer who has depth of knowledge and experiences on protocol integrations and optimizations, coming up with solutions that achieve high performance while balancing the implementation costs.

In this role, you will be working on the following:

Come up with solutions to control and integrate protocol features and SW, HW architectures and the systems that maximize the system performances and the efficiency of resource usage.

Analyze Wi‑Fi standard features (IEEE 802.11be/Wi‑Fi 7, IEEE 802.11bn/Wi‑Fi 8 and above) and relevant features to identify integration, architecting and implementation strategies for maximized performances and efficiencies.

Validate performance improvements of the solutions via simulation, modeling, and prototyping, and articulate technical capabilities as concrete user‑visible outcomes — reliable video, lower latency, longer battery life, smoother roaming.

Estimate the cost of the solutions — silicon area, power, HW/SW complexity, engineering effort, and schedule impact.

Partner with architecture and design teams to vet integration, architecture and implementation viability, characterize system constraints, evaluate scalability across product lines, and surface risks and dependencies early.

Build alignment across architecture, RF/analog, digital design, firmware, software engineering, and validation organizations to converge on agreed implementation paths.

Drive proof‑of‑concept work from first prototype through product bring‑up and optimizations — coordinating resources, unblocking the teams, and reporting outcomes to technical leadership.

Produce engineering‑ready specifications covering acceptance criteria, performance targets, interfaces, dependencies, and implementation guidance.

• Conceive solutions with integration and architecting strategies that maximize Wi‑Fi system performance and resource efficiency.
• Analyze protocol features including standards (IEEE 802.11be/Wi‑Fi 7, 802.11bn/Wi‑Fi 8, and beyond) to identify integrations of high‑leverage features and system architectures.
• Quantify benefits and costs — translating solution capabilities into user impact (video, latency, battery, roaming) and weighing them against silicon area, power, complexity, and schedule.
• Coordinate cross‑functional collaboration and POC development with architecture, RF, digital, firmware, software engineering, and validation teams, from prototype through product bring‑up and optimization.
• Author technical specifications with clear acceptance criteria, performance targets, dependencies, and interfaces to guide engineering…