System Quality Manager - Vision Pro

Position: System Quality Manager - Vision Pro and Home
** Role Number:*
* ** Summary*
* Do you have a passion for quality and want to lead a team that shapes cutting edge technologies at Apple? Quality is the cornerstones of what makes our products and technologies phenomenal. We are the Home and Vision Product Systems Quality team and we are seeking a technically strong and inspiring leader who would manage a group of diverse-minded systems QA engineers responsible for ensuring our customers receive the high quality they expect, in an ecosystem where products just fit together to create an intuitive system experience.

You will engage early in development phase to enable and qualify technologies across Apple Products like Vision Pro and the Apple Home ecosystem. Our team tests new products at Apple through both hardware and software development milestones. We partner with engineering teams to deeply understand new technologies and act as a focal point for ensuring Apple's high bar for quality throughout the process.

Come join our team and see how we contribute tremendously to the improvement of the entire Apple product ecosystem!

** Description*
* As the team manager, your responsibility is to guide the efforts, focus, and priorities of a team of creative engineers to achieve Apple's quality goals. You will also mentor and develop the team, providing career development guidance and supporting their professional growth, and foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning. From a technical standpoint, you will provide technical guidance and feedback to engineers developing test strategies and solutions for testing hardware and software features, drive technical standards across the team, and stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate their potential application to quality testing to keep raising the bar.

Operationally, you and your team will be responsible for driving quality subjectively and objectively for features that integrate aspects of software, hardware and customer centered ecosystem scenario. You and your team would be responsible for driving integrated system testing with an emphasis on hardware-centric software risks and new software features for new products and their accessories. You will manage project timelines, resource allocation, and deliverables across multiple project initiatives.

Using data and your drive for quality, you'll advocate for fixes and coordinate with engineers across Apple to improve and maintain quality on new and upcoming releases.

** Minimum Qualifications*
* + Bachelors degree in any engineering field

+ 5+ years of industry experience

+ Minimum of 2 years experience leading technical teams and/or projects with multiple partners

+ Driving project quality through product development and testing phases including leadership representation with attention to details, data-driven and customer impact approach

+ Strong verbal and written communication skills, collaboration and time management skills and experience developing or mentoring individual contributors

+ Basic understanding of machine learning models and AI applications

** Preferred Qualifications*
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Experience with agile development methodologies and project management tools

+ Systems Quality Assurance or System Test experience, preferably on consumer-facing Hardware/Software products

+ Direct experience partnering with functional engineering teams, with exceptional ability to build relationships