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Quality Engineer

Apple
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San Diego, CA$122.7k - $184.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Quality Engineer role focused on validation of Apple’s next-generation MacBook trackpads and keyboards, combining hardware testing with firmware/logic validation and AI-assisted validation tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Validate the sophisticated logic that interprets raw sensor data, ensuring that digital hardware inputs translate naturally into real-world interactions.
  • Implement comprehensive test strategies for new features, ensuring continuous validation across the MacBook ecosystem.
  • Bring your own ingenuity to the lab by designing and programming custom robotic automation fixtures to solve unique testing challenges.
  • Go beyond specification compliance to validate the "magic" of the input device, identifying edge cases in human-device interaction.
  • Partner with Electrical Engineering and Factory teams to scale validation from early prototypes to mass production.
  • Analyze complex data sets to provide actionable feedback to developers, helping them optimize firmware performance and reliability.
  • Contribute to the adoption and development of LLM-powered tooling to accelerate validation workflows through AI-assisted test failure triage, bug report routing, and natural-language test orchestration, advancing the next generation of intelligent automation for input device validation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience in firmware validation, embedded development, or a related technical field.
  • Demonstrated experience with bug hunting, regression testing, and system-level debugging.
  • Experience implementing AI-assisted workflows (e.g., code generation, data analysis, automated testing) and driving their integration into team processes.
  • Ability to understand and test the underlying logic that maps physical inputs to software events (algorithm validation).
  • Strong "quality mindset" with the ability to empathize with the end-user to find bugs that traditional automated tests might miss.
  • Experience designing or programming robotic automation fixtures and integrating them into test frameworks.
  • Proficiency with Python, Bash, Swift, or other scripting languages for test automation.
  • Experience with embedded software architecture (C, Objective-C, C++) and hardware debugging tools (Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers).

Skills

Required:Sensor data interpretation and algorithm validationTest strategy developmentRobotic automation fixture design/programmingPython
Nice to have:AI-assisted testing/toolsBashSwiftC/C++

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation may be available
  • stock programs including discretionary RSU and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Aug 28, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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