Tools and Automation Engineer

Summary

Be part of the iOS Device QE team, focused on testing firmware and ensuring ultra-high quality for Apple’s next generation human interface devices. You will be a motivated individual who cares and thinks about user experience, able to collaborate with other engineers to problem solve and understand the basics of firmware.

About the role

• Have a real passion for quality, enjoy breaking things through creative testing
• Thrive in uncertain, early prototype stages of a project when not all features are working yet, and enjoy putting energy into identifying/classifying issues as a way to improve quality
• Enjoying learning and teaching
• Have skill in building new processes or fixing old processes to improve quality of Apple products and efficiency of team
• Experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers and sensors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Understanding microcontroller based embedded systems, including algorithms
• Working to guarantee that Multitouch system consistently achieve Apple quality bar
• Partnering with a development team to quickly understand an architecture, break it into functional parts, come up with a plan to test/validate, and identify and target weaknesses
• Devising and building test fixtures, building tools and authoring automated scripts in Python
• Executing manual and automated test plans on early prototypes
• Documentation of test cases and code used for test execution
• Coming up with ideas for custom tools and methods to exercise firmware features
• Tracking performance, reporting results to management, driving issues to closure
• Partnering with Human Factors / User Study Group to validate the customer experience and learn about how humans use new input devices

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or related degrees
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience leveraging AI-powered development tools to streamline daily workflows, accelerate coding and debugging, creating test frameworks and improve overall code quality and testing methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or related degrees

• Experience writing and/or testing firmware, building embedded systems
• Knowledge of Mac systems and MacOS/iOS or UNIX variant
• Track record of shipping great consumer products
• Testing automation using Python or similar
• Use of hardware debugging tools

USB and Bluetooth CATC, protocol analyzer, logic analyzer, oscilloscope

• Familiarity with C/C++ or object-oriented programming
• Test tool development
• Continuous integration systems
• Algorithm analysis and validation