Job Details

Stability Quality Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Apr 11, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200597684

Do you want to make a positive impact on the direction of new, key technologies in consumer products?

We are seeking a creative and motivated Stability Quality Engineer to join our Systems Quality team, working to ensure world-changing products are delivered at a high-quality to all our customers! You'll be involved from the early stages of a project and will play a meaningful role in the way we make decisions of releasing Apple products to customers.

Come join our team!

Description

You'll be responsible for planning, writing/developing, and running 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.

In this role, you'll also:
- Manage 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 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

• 3+ years of experience in HW/SW test engineering

• 3+ years of consumer electronics experience

• In-depth knowledge of processor instruction set architecture and microarchitecture

• Strong knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting

• Experience running, monitoring and troubleshooting low-level and user-level UI automation in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Swift or Javascript

• 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

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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