OS Power and Performance - Software Development Engineer in Test

Apple Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 142,300 - 263,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Product discounts

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test in San Diego, California. In this role, you will build and maintain automated pipelines that ensure data correctness across Apple’s devices like iPhone, iPad, and more. Your work is essential for validating AI features and ensuring the quality of Apple’s software ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in test automation, debugging, and working with telemetry data. The position offers competitive pay, stock options, and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience with test automation and frameworks including scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Bash.
• Excellent ability to triage and debug problems.
• Passion for quality and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated tests that verify system telemetry data.
• Review and qualify telemetry contributions from development teams.
• Validate telemetry from on-device AI features.
• Build and maintain automation infrastructure for telemetry validation.
• Develop dashboards and reporting pipelines for telemetry health signals.
• Triage and investigate telemetry regressions.
• Improve the tooling for validating telemetry.
• Identify gaps in coverage and build automation.

Skills

Unix based systems

SQL or other database structures

Python or similar scripting languages

Test automation and frameworks

Debugging and QA methodologies

Attention to detail

Job description

OS Power and Performance - Software Development Engineer in Test

San Diego, California, United States Software and Services

Every meaningful decision about Apple device health, from identifying a battery regression to validating a new AI feature’s system footprint, starts with data. The Platform Telemetry Quality Engineering team owns the automated systems that ensure that data is accurate, complete, and trustworthy across every Apple platform. We sit at the foundation of Apple’s quality signal, and we’re looking for engineers who understand that great products are only as good as the data behind them.

Description

As a Quality Engineer on our team, you’ll build and maintain automated pipelines that validate system telemetry data across Apple’s entire device lineup, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and beyond. Your work ensures that when engineers across Apple instrument new features and services, the data flowing back from devices is correct, well‑structured, and regression‑free. You’ll validate telemetry from some of Apple’s most ambitious software, including on‑device AI models and Siri intelligence, working directly with development teams to define quality expectations before data ever reaches production. Through dashboards, automated reporting, and close cross‑functional collaboration, you’ll give teams across the organization a clear, real‑time picture of system health at every point in the release cycle. This role is for someone who takes data seriously, builds with scale in mind, and wants their work to underpin the quality signal for one of the world’s most complex software ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated tests that verify system telemetry data is logging correctly, completely, and without regression across Apple’s full device and platform portfolio
• Review and qualify telemetry contributions from development teams, validating table structure, data completeness, null handling, and correctness before changes land in production
• Validate telemetry from on‑device AI features, including large language model inference and Siri intelligence workflows, ensuring the data produced meets Apple’s quality bar
• Build and maintain automation infrastructure that runs telemetry validation at scale across multiple platforms simultaneously
• Develop dashboards and reporting pipelines that surface telemetry health signals to engineering and program stakeholders in real time
• Triage and investigate telemetry regressions, coordinating with development teams to drive issues to resolution quickly
• Improve the tooling that automates the path from developer telemetry submission to validated, integrated test coverage
• Identify gaps in coverage across new devices, platforms, and features, and build the automation to close them

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with Unix based systems
• Experience with SQL or other database structures
• Experience with Python or similar scripting languages
• 3+ years experience with test automation and frameworks including scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Bash, etc.
• Excellent ability to triage and debug problems, QA experience or exposure to good testing methodologies preferred
• Passion for quality and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of proven experience leading cross‑functional, technical projects and initiatives
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience leveraging LLM‑based tools for developing and testing code

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $142,300 and $263,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

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Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.