AIML Tools and Automation Engineer

Imagine what we could do together. At Apple new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and theres no telling what we could accomplish!nnThe Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apples long-held passion for combining art and technology. The products we build power the intelligence behind App Store Apple TV Apple Games Apple Music Apple Podcasts Apple Books Apple Sports and Apple Fitness. And we do it on a massive scale meeting Apples high standard for quality and excellence to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 50 languages to more than 150 countries. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow in a technical capacity by leveraging your skills along with building up solid domain knowledge and automated testing strategies and systems around Apples services offerings in the AI/ML space we would love to talk to you!n

The Apple Services Engineering AI/ML Quality organization is looking for a Quality Engineer with a passion for building and validating quality systems at scale with strong experience in leading multi-functional projects developing test and automation strategies in a fast moving team partnering across Quality Engineering Program Management and Product development. You will qualify a large variety of APIs dependent on a multitude of ecosystems to deliver high quality services to Apples will be responsible for the following:nn* Define end-to-end test strategy for AI/ML-powered services in partnership with multi-functional stakeholdersn* Author test plans and identify edge cases failure modes and risk areas across distributed services and ML lifecycle pipelinesn* Develop and maintain automated API service-level tests and validations for data and ML pipelines as features are being implementedn* Design and evolve automation frameworks and tooling that scale across teams and product surfacesn* Apply AI tooling and proof of concept models to build solutions that advance the rigor coverage and productivity of quality engineeringn* Drive best practices around quality gates CI/CD continuous training and continuous testing fostering a culture of built-in quality throughout the SDLCn* Surface coverage gaps and drive process and architectural improvements across the SDLC through qualityn* Define and track quality metrics such as test coverage flakiness and pipeline reliability across systemsn* Mentor junior team membersnn

Bachelors degree with a minimum of 5 years or Masters degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience in software development and/or test automation including at least 3 years leading complex distributed in Java Python or similar programming languagesnExperience with planning and execution of validating REST and gRPC APIs nPassion for quality engineering and delivering large scale distributed systems nCreative problem solving with attention to detail nSolid communication skills and ability to collaborate with multiple collaborators nHighly organized creative self-motivated and passionate about achieving results. Excited about the possibilities unlocked by AI and ML nAdvocacy for a positive customer experience

Knowledge of Big Data systems is a plus nExperience with testing or working with AI and/or ML systems is a plusnAdept at leveraging technology to solve problems including building tooling automating tasks