What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer in Test position at Apple?
The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.
The Media Services QA team is seeking a senior software development test engineer who is interested in ASE products, wants to make an impact to them and to Apple as a whole, excels at improving the data quality, and is driven to use and create cutting-edge tools and technologies. This role involves developing tools, frameworks and applications to support client to server automation testing.
Minimum Qualifications:
B.S.or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Proficiency in Swift, Python and SQL
10 years experience in building tools and frameworks for QA automation testing
Good understanding of full-stack development including back-end services and front-end UI design in Javascript or Typescript
Strong skills in building and developing with service infrastructures such as Kubernetes, Docker, CICD pipelines
Understanding of data analytics, data interrelationships and data pipeline testing
Experience in designing and creating AI agents
Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Big Data technologies (e.g. HDFS, AWS, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra)
Experience with near real-time (NRT) and Batch data pipelines
This position demands a self-motivated individual with strong technical who can contribute in a team environment.
Comfortable and adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
Good soft skills esp. listening and interfacing with stakeholders
Willingness to work cross-functionally with other teams.
Experience with ML model training or fine-tuning
Experience building enterprise level machine learning applications with Pytorch, Scipy, Scikit-learn