Cellular Automation Engineer

Summary

Do you want to work on groundbreaking technologies that enable amazing new products? Do you have the attention to detail and love for excellence to work towards an extraordinary result? Envision what you could do here! At Apple, we believe new insights can quickly become extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what you could accomplish!

Description

As an Automation Engineer, you will develop software solutions for our current and future products.

Responsibilities

• You will Design and develop sophisticated automation frameworks and test infrastructure for validating wireless and PHY systems across RF and baseband domains, enabling comprehensive validation and regression testing throughout the silicon development lifecycle.
• Working closely with validation team, you'll translate specifications into automated test strategies, identify validation gaps, and drive resolution of complex system issues.
• You will be working on automation and integration of auto triage tools and consolidated report generation and publications through emails and sharepoints.
• You will be working with AI/ML experts to continuously improving test methodologies to meet the demanding requirements of next-generation wireless systems.
• Implement and integrate automated tests into a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to ensure new code changes do not break existing functionality.
• Handle and document multiple system configurations across multiple platform and multiple geographies to ensure consistency and reliability across different environments/projects.
• Analyse execution workflows to identify bottlenecks and new opportunities for automation to increase equipment utilisation and reduce costs/time.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience developing test automation, including equipment drivers, debug tools, automation scripts and interfaces.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Shell scripting, and/or C/C++/C# for test automation.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering; Master's or Ph.D. preferred.
• Strong knowledge of wireless communication systems, with emphasis on FW cellular technologies experience is a plus.
• Proficiency with RF test equipment, including signal analyzers, signal generators, and spectrum analyzers.
• Experience with automation infrastructure development (traceability, repeatability) and related tools (Git, CI/CD, databases, reporting tools).
• Proficiency in employing AI/ML technologies to optimize workflow efficiency.
• A background in generative models, natural language processing, and large language models (LLMs)