Sr. Software Reliability & Stability Quality Engineer, Siri Speech

The Siri Speech team is looking for exceptional individuals to extend the core technology that lets Siri understand, learn, and remember. In this role you will:
- Bring technical depth to help solve challenging and novel problems and enable quantitative measurements of quality.
- Ability to develop automation tools, data corralling tools coming from various automation pipelines, and work cross-functionally to learn & reuse existing tools.
- Deliver clear reports to partners and executives as products under test move through each development phase.
- Take ownership of issues and drive them to resolution.
- Balance priorities between short term results and long term infrastructure improvements.
- Continuously improve tests and processes with a drive towards innovation and automation.

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and a real passion for product usability. This team ensures Reliability and Stability of Siri Software and will play a key role in telling us when we are ready to release the Software to our customers. Quality Engineers in this team test to objective metrics with customer experience in mind and build automated tests for iterative and long-term measurements of quality. You will create and utilize LLM tools to assist in this overall effort.

The ideal candidate should be comfortable to execute these tests and also write new automated tests and user-level test automation tools. In this role you will be actively involved in understanding features, identifying testing requirements and creating test plans. You will continuously track software bugs, identify issue trends, escalate bugs to be fixed and verify that they are indeed fixed by running the tests on automation racks.

Minimum 3 years of software quality experience.
Strong passion for quality assurance in software, including developing and maintaining automated test libraries and tools.
Strong programming and software design skills, preferably in Swift and/or Python.
Excellent knowledge of and experience with test methodologies ranging from functional unit tests to non-functional exploratory testing.
Experience building and deploying production-grade AI agent systems
Improving workflows using AI tools
Experience in building automated UI and non-UI tests for user facing applications or system frameworks.
Creative problem solver with a knack for building scalable solutions in a collaborative and cross-functional space.
Ability to proactively triage, investigate, and debug difficult technical and UX problems independently as well as collaboratively.
Highly organized with strong planning skills to estimate, update, and communicate progress.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
Knowledge of the Apple development ecosystem using Xcode, Xcode Cloud, and XCTest or XCUITest preferred
Experience with or knowledge of Machine Learned (ML) systems and associated qualification approaches.
Strong interpersonal skills to work well with engineering teams
Excellent problem solving and critical thinking
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities
Passionate about building extraordinary products and experiences for our users

Join the team redefining what a deeply personal and integrated assistant can be. 

As part of the Siri organization, you will help shape one of the world's most widely used AI assistants, powered by our next-generation of Apple Intelligence, with capabilities like personal context understanding and on-screen awareness, built with privacy from the ground up. Your work will have direct, meaningful impact for users across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.

This is a rare opportunity to build at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and human-centered design, shipping technology that is centered around users and their needs.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,500 and $311,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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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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