Job Details

Accessories Quality Engineer

Cupertino, California, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Role Number: 200609190

Are you passionate about consumer electronics and intrigued by the technologies that bring them to life? Do you excel at seeing the big picture and understanding how hardware and software seamlessly integrate? If shaping product quality for millions excites you, come join our team!

We are the Product Systems Quality team, and we are a team of motivated and creative engineers, admired for taking on challenges and articulating ideas effectively. You'll be part of a vibrant team dedicated to upholding the quality of Apple’s first-party Inductive charging accessories. Apply your technical expertise to solve complicated issues collaboratively with cross-functional partners, ensuring customer-facing problems are swiftly resolved. Play a pivotal role in enabling accessory testing globally and lead expansive cross-functional projects at the intersection of Hardware and Software. This role also demands orchestrating large-scale projects from test plan inception through to firmware architecture discussions, result reporting, and risk management.

Description

In this role, you will:

• Craft detailed test plans to ensure wireless charging accessories excel under typical and extreme customer conditions.
• Automate repetitive tests and aggregate results from international test sites.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to steer test design, coverage analysis, execution, and reporting.
• Collaborate autonomously with developers and hardware engineers to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
• Proactively investigate and debug complex challenges, driving towards effective solutions.
• Exhibit outstanding organizational skills, creativity, motivation, and a focus on delivering results.
• Lead deployment of automation tools at test sites, coordinating shipping, logistics, troubleshooting, and data coordination.
• Champion superior customer-facing quality at every development lifecycle stage.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.

• 2+ years of experience testing complex systems with multiple hardware and software components.

• Expertise in bug hunting and regression testing within embedded systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Scripting proficiency in Python.

• Knowledge of USB and Inductive charging, including applications and testing methodologies.

• System-level insight into charging via USB and/or Qi, Qi2 standards.

• Skill in analyzing large datasets to extract insights, with visualization experience using tools like Tableau.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Pay & Benefits

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 $136,300 and $248,700, 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. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

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