Platform Quality Engineering Manager - Military Veterans

at Apple

San Diego, California

Summary

Posted: Jan 12, 2021
Role Number:200215656
Do you see the big picture and love setting ambitious goals? Do you have a passion for understanding how each line of code affects all the others? In the Core Operating Systems group we ensure that the OS is inseparable from each device’s identity as a whole. That’s because this group is committed to building fully integrated operating systems that combine hardware, software, and apps into a single Apple experience. Your dedication to cross-disciplinary collaboration will help develop groundbreaking technologies for macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. By crafting these distinct, holistic user experiences, you’ll continue to uphold and advance the excellence people expect from Apple devices. The Platform Quality Engineering team is looking for an engineering manager to lead and grow our organization. The Platform Quality Engineering team develops system validation tools and tests for low level SOC firmwares, silicon software features, bootloaders, and helps shape the quality of our Hardware/Software/Silicon interactions ; working on this core technology you will have the opportunity to have a major impact on the success of Apple's products.

Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications
  • 5 years' experience in team management
  • Solid understanding of operating systems fundamentals
  • Knowledge of C, C++ and Python
  • Knowledge of LLDB and other debug tools
  • Experience in automation, workflow and tooling changes
  • Prior development experience of system stress racks at scale
  • Influence without authority among cross-functional teams across Apple and getting others to align with your vision
  • Experience with data visualization is a plus

Description

Description
Lead our Platform Quality Engineering team to: Triage critical software and hardware issues across the entire software stack Design and implement new stress tests to catch hard to find problems earlier in the hardware development cycle Own the overall system stability of in development hardware within the larger software organization Work with stability, software, hardware and QA teams to systematically improve the overall stability of future OS releases Design and develops driver features providing metrics and debuggability to streamline driver development. Set daily priorities for completion of tasks as well as long-term priorities for team development. Work closely with build and test team to ensure that what is released to customers meets our rigorous quality standards. Develop the current team and hire to scale as needed Guide, mentor, and develop team members to help find their maximum potential Track team performance to analyze and identify areas of improvement for training, tooling, and workflow Daily/weekly/monthly analysis of bug trends and action plan development using those trends

Education & Experience

Education & Experience
Masters Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements

San Diego, California

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We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including Apple TV, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

Every new product we invent, service we create, or store we open is the result of people working together to make each other’s ideas stronger. That happens here because every one of us strives toward a common goal — creating the best customer experiences. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it. This is where your work can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own.

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