Firmware Automation Engineer

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Jul 30, 2024
Role Number:200561031
Imagine the impact you can make. In this technical role, you will help in the automation development effort for the characterization of state-of-the-art wireless SoC products! You will expand the team’s automation frameworks, build new tools, setup monitoring systems, and be responsible for ensuring the team is fully ready to test the latest generation of Apple Wireless FW SOC!

DESCRIPTION

The Wireless Connectivity Silicon team is seeking a strong, experienced, self-motivated testing and automation engineer with a passion for contributing to Apple’s Wireless Silicon FW development efforts. The daily tasks will include planning and building automation infrastructure, maintaining test racks, bringing up new SoC and hardware platforms, writing and executing automation tests, writing and executing test strategies and test plans, and writing up, reproducing, triaging, and resolving bug reports. You will also help write tools to parse and represent data, automate dashboards, and assist the FW and QA team in any automation efforts. You should have a strong curiosity to learn new technologies, excellent communication skills, and the ability to drive complex and challenging projects. Strong collaboration with engineering teams and an ability to thrive under pressure, are key skills required to succeed. The Wireless FW QA team is a passionate and tight-knit collection of engineers who are eager to identify a highly motivated engineer with aspirations to build powerful automation, cultivate learning, and lead automation efforts across teams. This is a high-impact team looking to hire a high-impact individual.

• BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Automation and CI experience
• Strong Python scripting and object-oriented (classes, inheritance)experience is a must
• Strong shell scripting
• Source control experience
• Some exposure to hardware/FW/wireless/embedded development/testing is desired
• Excellent problem-solving and reasoning skills
• Standout ability of collaboration, communication, and partnerships
• Proactive, positive, dedicated, inventive, and willing to tackle challenges
• Excellent knowledge and experience with test methodologies (unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, functional testing, etc).
• Ability to investigate, debug, and triage difficult problems both independently and collaboratively.
• Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results.
• Creative thinker and strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail.

• BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experienc