Do you want to make a positive impact on the direction of new, key technologies in consumer products?
We're seeking a creative and motivated Stability Quality Engineer to join a Systems Quality team working to ensure world-changing products are delivered at a high-quality to all our customers. You will be involved from the early stages of a project and will play a critical role in the way we make decisions of releasing Apple products to customers. You will be responsible for planning, writing/developing, and executing system stability tests with an emphasis on hardware-centric software risks and writing and running automation simultaneously on a large number of systems. You will be at the nexus of hardware and software where you work cross-functionally with several engineering and QA teams to identify risk areas and testing responses, and to support engineering investigations. You should have a good instinct for discovering low-level defects in software and hardware.
Come join our team!
Description
- Managing a rack of systems running a variety of tests and engineering experiments
- Identify, reproduce, and isolate bugs found via debugging and performance analysis tools
- Report issues in accordance with Apple bug reporting methods and testing guidelines
- Provide training on a regular basis and mentor others as needed on particular skill set areas
- Designing and writing on-the-fly automated stress and stability hardware-centric software tests for embedded systems
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CS, CE, or equivalent degree
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in HW/SW test engineering
- Minimum 5+ years of consumer electronics experience
- In-depth knowledge of processor instruction set architecture and microarchitecture
- Experience presenting data to executives
- Strong communication and written skills
- Thrive in a collaborative environment and comfortable working with multi-functional teams. Laser-focused on the smallest details that are meaningful to our customers
- Ability to solve hardware systems to component level and perform root-cause analysis
- Experience executing and monitoring and troubleshooting low-level and user-level UI automation in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Swift or Javascript
- Strong knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's or PHD in EE, CS, CE, or equivalent degree
- Experience working in factory processes such as burn-in qualification
- Experience developing, and maintaining Python scripts
- Experience developing, and maintaining UI automation tests like XCTest
- Previously built advanced reporting tools like Tableau
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