Sr. Software Reliability & Stability Quality Engineer, Siri Speech

Sr. Software Reliability & Stability Quality Engineer, Siri Speech

Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services

Join the team redefining what a deeply personal and integrated assistant can be. As part of the Siri organization, you will help shape one of the world's most widely used AI assistants, powered by our next-generation Apple Intelligence, with capabilities like personal context understanding and on-screen awareness, built with privacy from the ground up. Your work will have direct, meaningful impact for users across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.

This is a rare opportunity to built at the intersection of cutting‑edge AI and human‑centered design, shipping technology that is centered around users and their needs.

The Siri Speech team is looking for exceptional individuals to extend the core technology that lets Siri understand, learn, and remember. In this role you will:

• Bring technical depth to help solve challenging and novel problems and enable quantitative measurements of quality.
• Develop automation tools and data corralling tools from various pipelines, and work cross‑functionally to learn & reuse existing tools.
• Deliver clear reports to partners and executives as products under test move through each development phase.
• Take ownership of issues and drive them to resolution.
• Balance priorities between short‑term results and long‑term infrastructure improvements.
• Continuously improve tests and processes with a drive towards innovation and automation.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and a real passion for product usability. This team ensures reliability and stability of Siri software and will play a key role in telling us when we are ready to release the software to our customers. Quality Engineers in this team test to objective metrics with customer experience in mind and build automated tests for iterative and long‑term measurements of quality.
  
  You will create and utilize LLM tools to assist in this overall effort.
• The ideal candidate should be comfortable executing these tests and also writing new automated tests and user‑level test automation tools. In this role you will be actively involved in understanding features, identifying testing requirements and creating test plans. You will continuously track software bugs, identify issue trends, escalate bugs to be fixed and verify that they are indeed fixed by running the tests on automation racks.

• Minimum 3 years of software quality experience.
• Strong passion for quality assurance in software, including developing and maintaining automated test libraries and tools.
• Strong programming and software design skills, preferably in Swift and/or Python.
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with test methodologies ranging from functional unit tests to non‑functional exploratory testing.
• Experience building and deploying production‑grade AI agent systems.
• Experience improving workflows using AI tools.
• Experience in building automated UI and non‑UI tests for user‑facing applications or system frameworks.
• Creative problem solver with a knack for building scalable solutions in a collaborative and cross‑functional space.
• Ability to proactively triage, investigate, and debug difficult technical and UX problems independently as well as collaboratively.
• Highly organized with strong planning skills to estimate, update, and communicate progress.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Knowledge of the Apple development ecosystem using Xcode, Xcode Cloud, and XCTest or XCUITest preferred.
• Experience with or knowledge of machine‑learned (ML) systems and associated qualification approaches.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work well with engineering teams.
• Excellent problem‑solving and critical thinking.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment with rapidly changing priorities.
• Passionate about building extraordinary products and experiences for our users.

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.

At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here—including our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong.

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.