Principal Quality Engineer — Media Services

Apple, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 354,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's Services Engineering team in Seattle is seeking a Principal Quality Engineer to drive quality strategy across massive systems, from server APIs to delightful user interfaces. You will partner with Engineering and Product leaders to elevate quality, reliability, and automation across the product lifecycle.

This role emphasizes AI integration, metrics, and strong technical leadership. You will mentor teams, define governance, and oversee end-to-end quality initiatives impacting millions of

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, keen architecture sense, and cross-cultural collaboration.

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
• Communicate progress effectively across the organization, to all levels of leadership.

Skills

Quality leadership

Software quality

Automation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field

Job description

Apple's Services Engineering team in Seattle is seeking a Principal Quality Engineer to drive quality strategy across massive systems, from server APIs to delightful user interfaces. You will partner with Engineering and Product leaders to elevate quality, reliability, and automation across the product lifecycle.

This role emphasizes AI integration, metrics, and strong technical leadership. You will mentor teams, define governance, and oversee end-to-end quality initiatives impacting millions of