Inductive System Automation and Validation Engineer

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Summary

Are you passionate about consumer electronics and intrigued by the technologies that bring them to life? Do you excel at seeing the big picture and understanding how hardware and software seamlessly integrate? If shaping product quality for millions excites you, come join our team!

We are the Product Systems Quality team, and we are a team of motivated and creative engineers, admired for taking on challenges and articulating ideas effectively.

Description

You'll be part of a vibrant team dedicated to upholding the quality of Apple’s first-party Inductive charging products. Apply your technical expertise to solve complicated issues collaboratively with cross-functional partners, ensuring customer-facing problems are swiftly resolved. Play a pivotal role in enabling accessory testing globally and lead expansive cross-functional projects at the intersection of Hardware and Software. This role also demands orchestrating large-scale projects from test plan inception through to firmware architecture discussions, result reporting, and risk management.

Responsibilities

Craft detailed test plans to ensure wireless charging accessories excel under typical and extreme customer conditions.
Automate repetitive tests and aggregate results from international test sites.
Partner with cross-functional teams to steer test design, coverage analysis, execution, and reporting.
Collaborate autonomously with developers and hardware engineers to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
Proactively investigate and debug complex challenges, driving towards effective solutions.
Exhibit outstanding organizational skills, creativity, motivation, and a focus on delivering results.
Lead deployment of automation tools at test sites, coordinating shipping, logistics, troubleshooting, and data coordination.
Champion superior customer-facing quality at every development lifecycle stage.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
Scripting proficiency in Python.
3+ years of experience testing complex systems with multiple hardware and software components.
Expertise in bug hunting and regression testing within embedded systems.
Demonstrated experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks from the ground up

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of Inductive charging, including applications and testing methodologies.
System-level insight into charging via USB and/or Qi, Qi2 standards.
Skill in analyzing large datasets to extract insights, with visualization experience using tools like Tableau.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (pytest, Robot Framework, Jenkins, etc.)
Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and collaborative development workflows
Background in automated hardware testing with equipment contro
Knowledge of containerization (Docker) and infrastructure-as-code for test environment management
Experience with SQL databases for test result storage and retrieval

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.