Navigation Framework Software Development in Test (SDET) – Apple Maps

At Apple Maps were not just building world-class location experiences were shaping the future of how people explore and navigate the world. As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) youll join a high-impact team thats passionate about quality automation and innovation. Youll help enhance the reliability and performance of Maps across all platforms by building sophisticated test solutions that scale. Our team culture is one of deep collaboration shared ownership and a strong belief that quality is everyones responsibility. We support each other challenge each other and grow together all while having fun solving some of the most complex testing problems at Apple. If youre excited about pushing boundaries in automation and working with an exceptional group of engineers wed love to have you on the journey.n

As a member of the Maps Client Quality Engineering organization you will play a key role in advancing the automation that ensures the accuracy and reliability of Apple Maps. Your primary focus will be on the Navigation Framework while also contributing to other foundational areas that power the Maps experience across Apple platforms.n

Architect and implement framework-level automation that validates navigation routing guidance ETA accuracy and other service asynchronous and data-driven tests that model real-world navigation behaviors and system with Client Services and Quality Engineers to identify coverage gaps define automation requirements and deliver scalable solutions that improve reliability and signal existing frameworks to support multiple environments reduce runtime and strengthen regression with AI-driven quality initiatives to integrate intelligent insights enabling smarter test selection automated triage and faster root-cause to the evolution of Apple Maps automation ecosystem helping to shape how AI analytics and frameworks come together to raise the bar for quality at scale. Your work will directly influence how millions of users experience navigation discovery and exploration across the Apple ecosystem.n

Strong programming skills in Swift and Objective-C with experience reading debugging and extending framework-level or API-level -on experience with asynchronous programming and testing (async/await callbacks concurrency dispatch queues).nnProven expertise in framework or non-UI automation validating APIs SDKs or service understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation infrastructure (ATP Jenkins Xcode Cloud).nnExperience partnering with Client Services and Quality Engineers to define automation needs and architect the right solutions for the right to or direct experience integrating AI/ML techniques into automation workflows (intelligent triage anomaly detection test selection).nnStrong analytical debugging and communication automation or test-data validation experience is a strong or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 35 years of industry experience in test automation or iOS development.

Experience with XCTest is highly preferred nnPassion for building clean reusable test components and contributing to test infrastructure sense of ownership curiosity and drive to improve quality at with Maps Navigation or GeoServices frameworks or other large-scale system in framework or SDK-level automation with analytics pipelines and validation of telemetry or metrics to AI/ML platforms or model-assisted quality systems.n