Engineering Manager, Systems Test Automation
Summary
Leads Apple's Product Systems Quality engineering team in Sunnyvale, setting test strategy and automation infrastructure to measure system, sensor, and feature performance across Apple's hardware programs. Day to day: managing engineers, leading code reviews (Python plus Swift/Objective-C/C++), and turning test results into evidence-based product-readiness recommendations.
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, quality is what makes our products feel like magic. ProductSystems Quality (PSQ) tests Apple products where hardware, firmware, and software meet. We testunder real-world conditions, from the first prototypes through launch, so customers can trust ourproducts with what matters most. Our work helps Apple ship products that set the industry standardfor quality, with hardware and software designed together so everything works seamlessly, day afterday. You’ll join a collaborative team of engineers who hold themselves to a high technical standard and who rely on evidence, not opinion, to decide when a product is ready.
We’re hiring a technically grounded engineering manager to lead a team of quality engineers. Yourteam will measure system, sensor, and feature performance across Apple’s shipping and exploratoryhardware programs. You’ll advise leadership on whether each product is ready to ship.
In this role, you’ll lead a team of engineers, decide what gets tested and how, and set the technicaldirection for test frameworks and infrastructure. You’ll lead code reviews, guide test architecture andsystem design, and give engineers clear technical direction. You’ll work closely with hardware,firmware, and software teams and turn test results into clear, evidence-based recommendations onproduct readiness.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of experience in quality, test, or software engineering, including 2+ years managingengineers
- Experience as a senior or lead engineer designing test automation frameworks or infrastructure
- Experience setting test strategy for embedded firmware or system software
- Ability to review code and designs in Python and at least one of Swift, Objective-C, or C/C++
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience validating health, fitness, or sensor-based features, including supporting user studies or testing in regulated environments
- Experience with Apple test frameworks such as XCTest or XCUITest
- Experience debugging embedded firmware (real-time operating systems, bootloaders, sensor drivers) using logs, traces, and instrumented builds
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, test fixtures, and lab instrumentation
- Experience with early hardware bring-up and shipping high-volume consumer hardware