Principal Quality Engineer: AI-Driven Strategy Leader

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 376,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Principal Quality Engineer to drive evolution of Quality Engineering for Commerce & Growth. You will partner with leaders across Apple Services Engineering to shape quality strategies, implement metrics, and advocate for AI-enabled quality tooling at massive scale.

You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering and product, define quality goals, and ensure high standards across server APIs and user interfaces.

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.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field, such as computer science, engineering, or mathematics.

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.

Skills

Quality engineering leadership

Technical leadership

QA/QE expert

System architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Deep technical detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering/mathematics

Tools

Testing server-side systems

Software release management

Job description

Apple is seeking a Principal Quality Engineer to drive evolution of Quality Engineering for Commerce & Growth. You will partner with leaders across Apple Services Engineering to shape quality strategies, implement metrics, and advocate for AI-enabled quality tooling at massive scale.

You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering and product, define quality goals, and ensure high standards across server APIs and user interfaces.