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Tools and Automation Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Sunnyvale, CA$144.6k - $263.8kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Engineer role focused on testing firmware for Apple’s next generation human interface devices, delivering high-quality outcomes through automated and manual testing, tool-building, and collaboration with development teams.

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

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
  • 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

Skills

Required:Embedded systems testingAutomation scripting (Python)Manual and automated test executionHardware debugging toolsPython
Nice to have:C/C++ programming

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation support (may apply)
  • employee stock programs (RSU eligibility, Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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