Software Quality Engineering Manager - Find My Team

Have you ever misplaced your phone, or needed to locate your AirPods, or shared your location with family members who care about you the most? Apple Find My is a powerful and intuitive way to locate and keep track of your Apple devices and personal belongings! The Find My Team is looking for a QE Manager to direct a team of Test Engineers and Automation Engineers who are responsible for the quality assurance of our outstanding and popular products and services. If you have validated experience supporting full-stack QE from the web to lower daemon levels of embedded software systems through the client, firmware and hardware layers, and you have experience working with Bluetooth and other communication protocols, we may have a role for you!

Description

As the QE Manager on our team, you will partner with various multi-functional HW, Firmware, Software, and other technical teams to lead the quality engineering team to ensure the highest levels are met. You will use Automation, Functional, and Exploratory Testing to accomplish this mission.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities in this role includes but are not limited to:
• Managing a team consisting of test development engineers, partnering with multiple engineering teams to develop and support Find My products and features.
• Creating innovative ways to automate and expand our software testing
• Compiling, analyzing, and presenting test results-ultimately driving and constantly improving Apple's product quality
• Ability to support pager-duty on a 24/7 as-needed basis
• Working with and leading other team members who are in different time-zones including Europe

Minimum Qualifications

• BS CS/CE/EE or relevant field and experience as an Engineering Manager or a Software Quality Manager
• Coding skills in C++, Objective C, Python, Java, or related OOD languages
• Experience supporting HW, Firmware, Embedded, and daemon-level software QA solutions
• Hands-on knowledge of communication protocols including Bluetooth and Cellular
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies including triaging, debugging, automating, testing, etc.
• Proven experience working with at least one of Apple's ecosystems ie: Find My, AirTag, AirPods, Watch, iPhone, CarPlay, etc.
• Demonstrated passion for quality and the ability to discuss your tangible improvements to both product and process
• Ability to describe how you have mentored team members to improve their skill-sets and deliverables
• Experience driving release decisions, scoping work, and driving bug convergence
• Hands on experience writing strong object-oriented code including creating automation frameworks and test scripts for large scale testing scenario's.
• Track record of building strong working relationships across large organizations.
• Able to work in an ambiguous and highly interdependent work environment to get things done in an efficient and tactful way
• Experience creating and bringing to bear qualitative metrics and measurements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with accessories or other HW
• Web and Services QE experience
• Ability to attract, retain, and grow people to create a self organized and highly empowered team
• Experience owning release decisions and project scoping

This posting is not for a specific job opening and by submitting your resume you are expressing interest in being contacted about this type of role at Apple in the future.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

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Client-provided location(s): Culver City, CA

Job ID: apple-200623953-0670

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-12T19:13:21