Stability Project DRI

Do you want to make a positive impact on the direction of new, key technologies in consumer products?   

We're seeking a creative and motivated Stability Quality Engineer to join a Systems Quality team working to ensure world-changing products are delivered at a high-quality to all our customers. You will be involved from the early stages of a project and will play a critical role in the way we make decisions of releasing those Macs to customers. You will be responsible for planning, writing/developing, and executing system stability tests with an emphasis on hardware-centric software risks and writing and running automation simultaneously on a large number of systems. You will be at the nexus of hardware and software where you work cross-functionally with several engineering and QA teams to identify risk areas and testing responses, and to support engineering investigations. You should have a good instinct for discovering low-level defects in software and hardware.   

Key Qualifications

- Minimum 5+ years of experience in HW/SW test engineering

- In-depth knowledge of processor instruction set architecture and microarchitecture

- Experience working with pre or post-silicon hardware

- Experience presenting data to executives

- Strong communication, written skills, and interpersonal skills (required to establish and maintain inter-departmental relationships)

- Ability to solve hardware systems to component level and perform root-cause analysis

- Experience executing and monitoring and troubleshooting low-level and user-level UI automation in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Swift or Javascript

- Strong knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting

Description

- Managing a rack of systems running a variety of tests and engineering experiments  

- Identify, reproduce, and isolate bugs found via debugging and performance analysis tools

- Report issues in accordance with Apple bug reporting methods and testing guidelines

- Provide training on a regular basis and mentor others as needed on particular skill set areas

- Designing and writing on-the-fly automated stress and stability hardware-centric software tests for embedded systems  

Additional Requirements

Nice to have:

- Experience working in factory processes such as burn-in qualification

- Experience developing, and maintaining Python scripts

- Previously built advanced reporting tools like Tableau.