Apple
Quality Engineer
$123K–$185K
San Diego, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years preferred; no minimum years stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Validates MacBook trackpad and keyboard hardware, firmware, and input behavior from prototypes through mass production, using testing and automation to improve the customer experience.
What you'll do
- Develop test strategies and validate sensor-data interpretation, features, and human-device interactions across the MacBook ecosystem.
- Design and program robotic automation fixtures, analyze test data, and provide feedback to improve firmware performance and reliability.
- Partner with engineering, factory, design, and human factors teams; help develop LLM-powered tools for validation workflows.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of experience in firmware validation, embedded development, or a related technical field.
- Experience with bug hunting, regression testing, system-level debugging, AI-assisted workflows, algorithm validation, robotic automation, scripting, or embedded software and hardware debugging.
Pay
$122,700 and $184,800 (base salary)
Tools
LLM, Python, Bash, Swift, C, Objective-C, C++, Oscilloscopes
AI focus
Contribute to LLM-powered tooling for AI-assisted test failure triage, bug report routing, and natural-language test orchestration; experience with AI-assisted workflows such as code generation, data analysis, or automated testing is preferred.
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