Software Test Engineer - AI/ML & Scalable Systems

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Employee stock purchase plan

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounts on products

Job summary

Apple seeks a quality engineer to join the Services Engineering team in Seattle, WA. You will design, implement and maintain automation tests and testing frameworks for backend services and ML pipelines, ensuring high quality across distributed systems.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive QA best practices, mentor junior engineers, and help improve CI/CD, design principles, and tooling in a fast-paced Apple environment focused on AI/ML scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years, or Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years, of experience in software development and/or test automation, including at least 3 years leading complex, distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Python or similar programming languages.
• Experience in designing and implementing testing frameworks for distributed systems, service-layer testing, including backend APIs, data processing, and infrastructure components.
• Passion for quality engineering and delivering creative approaches for testing machine learning algorithms and large scale distributed data systems.
• Impeccable communication skills and ability to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholders across organizations and project timelines.
• Advocacy for a positive customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain automation tests, testing & development frameworks and tooling to support various backend services and machine learning models and pipelines.
• Analyze, recommend, and implement best practices for coding guidelines and design principles, process workflow, quality gates, CI/CD process, etc.
• Partner with cross functional teams to define and drive quality assurance best practices, techniques and methodologies needed to enhance productivity and quality.
• Identify process and architecture inefficiencies and help drive improvements while reducing risk, fostering a culture of built-in quality and continuous testing throughout the SDLC.
• Mentor junior team members.

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Testing frameworks

CI/CD

Communication

AI/ML

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Apache Spark

Job description

Apple seeks a quality engineer to join the Services Engineering team in Seattle, WA. You will design, implement and maintain automation tests and testing frameworks for backend services and ML pipelines, ensuring high quality across distributed systems.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive QA best practices, mentor junior engineers, and help improve CI/CD, design principles, and tooling in a fast-paced Apple environment focused on AI/ML scale.