Firmware Quality Engineer

Apple

Auckland
Permanent
Full-time

2 months ago

Be part of the Input Device QE team, focused on testing firmware and ensuring ultra-high quality for Apple's next generation human interface devices. This includes technologies such as Multi-Touch, Heart-rate sensing, Touch ID, and other input device technologies across a variety of Apple's product lines! Testing is focused on microcontroller based firmware interfaced with sensors and various other system components. You will be a motivated individual who independently follows up on bugs, collaborates with developers to resolve low-level issues and can understand and discuss technical problems.Key Qualifications Key Qualifications

An excellent candidate will:
Have a real passion for quality, enjoy breaking things through creative testing
Thrive in uncertain, early prototype stages of a project when not all features are working yet, and enjoy putting energy into identifying/classifying issues as a way to improve quality
Strive to innovate and try new things, incorporating continuous improvement of testing methods
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Description DescriptionCore responsibilities include: - Understanding microcontroller based embedded systems, including algorithms - Partnering with a development team to quickly understand an architecture, break it into functional parts, come up with a plan to test/validate, and identify and target weaknesses - Crafting creative ways to exercise embedded subsystems, communication protocols (SPI, I2C, etc) and high-level features of embedded devices - Devising and building test fixtures, building tools and authoring automated scripts - Carrying out manual and automated test plans on early prototypes, typically at the “grey box” level - Helping to craft quality from a very early stage, ushering the product from early prototype to production - Documentation of test cases and code used for test execution - Coming up with ideas for custom tools and methods to exercise firmware features - Supervising performance, reporting results to management, driving issues to closureEducation & Experience Education & ExperienceBS or MS in Computer Science /Computer Engineering /Electrical & Electronics Engineering or related degrees 2+ years' experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers and sensors.

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