System Integration Test Engineer, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems

Overview

Join our Wireless Technologies and Ecosystems Engineering (WTE) team and drive innovation that matters! We build and seamlessly integrate technologies that enrich people’s lives and deliver the best user‑experience. We’re a hardworking and critical team that helps drive design, develop and integrate cellular chipsets in Apple products.

You will join a hands‑on system integration team that nurtures creativity and generates novel solutions to deliver engineering precision! The Baseband system integration team is looking for an excellent Engineer to join our organization and help us drive quality and performance improvements in our cellular baseband products.

You will be crafting efficient, robust, scalable development/testing infrastructure and tools. This is a highly technical hands‑on role which requires in‑depth technical understanding of software, hardware and test environments in a resource‑constrained environment. You should be a person who is motivated, who can research, develop and pursue issues, and work with teams of developers and test engineers across the organization. You’ll be involved in all phases of the cellular integration process, and have a direct impact on the experience of millions of customers. You will have a real passion for performance, automation and software, along with hands‑on automation experience. It is encouraged that you can track and clearly communicate work you’re doing related to release readiness, identify any gaps, and consistently assess new and innovative ways to improve the delivery of our products, as well as promote performance and architecture standard methodologies throughout the engineering team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proficient in setting up and managing cellular test systems with simulators and live network, proficiency in debug and isolation of modem, network issues.
• Hands‑on experience with cellular network simulators (CMX, Keysight, Anritsu, Amarisoft) to write complex test scenarios, debug and root cause issues to different protocol components.
• Solid background in Python programming skills with hands‑on experience in developing test framework and automation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience with how cellular network works, knowledge of PHY, protocol n/w layers, bands, etc.
• Scripting experience (Python preferred, Perl, Shell)
• Experience with Git, Gerrit and Jenkins job configurations and understanding of software development flow with continuous integration flow knowledge
• Experience in setting up Mac based hosts, installing automation tools for test setup bringup, bringing up test setups with network simulators.
• Knowledge of system test automation execution and experience in isolating issues, both software and hardware.
• Experience with driving defect analysis and root cause with project teams.
• Regularly contribute to overall test integration and automation process improvement.
• Teamwork, detail‑oriented, good communication skills.