Apple
Wi-Fi Certification Quality Engineer, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 10, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years with 802.11/Wi-Fi protocols, including packet-level analysis; 3+ years in SQA methodologies and practices.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Conduct Wi-Fi Alliance certification and interoperability testing across Apple products, improving connectivity quality through test development, automation, and issue analysis.
What you'll do
- Execute WFA certification tests and support certification submissions; provide feedback to improve test plans.
- Build and maintain certification test setups and test beds, and analyze logs to isolate and resolve failures with engineering teams.
- Develop automated certification and regression test frameworks, including AI-assisted automation; participate in field interoperability events.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience with 802.11/Wi-Fi protocols, including packet-level analysis.
- 3+ years of experience in software quality assurance (SQA) methodologies and practices.
- Experience developing test strategies and plans, executing automated or manual tests, and applying AI to automation or testing workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience with Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) Certification Programs, including building and maintaining test setups or test beds.
- Experience using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth packet sniffers and network protocol analyzers to debug issues.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
802.11/Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) Certification Programs, iOS, watchOS, Bluetooth
AI focus
Apply AI to test and automation workflows; develop AI-assisted test automation where useful.
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