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Principal Quality Engineer / Manager

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, CA$212.6k - $376.3kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior quality leadership role shaping the Quality Engineering organization for Apple Services Engineering (Commerce & Growth). Responsible for defining cross-organizational quality strategy, integrating AI into quality lifecycle, and driving metrics, tooling, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure high-quality, scalable systems across server APIs and user interfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive cross-organizational quality strategy and execution
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Product partners to align on strategic efforts and incorporate them in the overall product lifecycle
  • Define, instrument, and implement metrics to measure success of the strategic efforts
  • Integrate AI as a core competency into Quality lifecycle and tooling (e.g., test case generation, anomaly detection, coverage analysis)
  • Communicate progress effectively across the organization, to all levels of leadership.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience in the quality engineering space.
  • Experience leading large technical organizations through change.
  • Expert in the practice of QA/QE and track record of improving quality through processes, systems, and automation.
  • Strong technical leadership and keen architecture sense.
  • Capacity to engage in deep technical detail yet move fluidly into big-picture thinking.
  • Honed practice of developing technical leaders, setting clear strategy, direction and goals
  • Experience working with distributed teams across cultures, geography, and timezones.
  • High value for teamwork, collaboration, and driving cross-functional alignment. Fluent in influencing without control.
  • Strong practice of stakeholder management.
  • Ability to drive clarity in the midst of ambiguity.
  • Superb communication skills: ability to convey complicated concepts concisely and tailor messaging to different audiences.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field, such as computer science, engineering, or mathematics.
  • Experience testing server-side systems.
  • Experience planning and leading software release cycles.

Skills

Required:Quality strategyLeadership andChange ManagementCross-functional collaborationAI in Quality

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation (if eligible)
  • employee stock programs (discretionary RSUs and stock purchase plan)
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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