Health Sensing - Software Development Engineer in Test
Apple
Software Engineering
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 126,800-220,900 / year + Equity
Posted on Dec 5, 2025
Be part of the engineering team crafting health features on Watch. The Health Sensing team has a catalogue of health features we ship to customers every year. We’re looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who has strong experience with leading cross-functional testing efforts, developing tests, driving validation strategy, and building up testing infrastructure in a fast paced team. In this role, you’ll work with development and quality engineers to test number of sophisticated health features on next version of Watch hardware and watchOS. You will also strategize and develop robust, scalable, and reliable infrastructure to support this testing. If you are a highly motivated engineer with aspirations to build such automation, nurture learning, and lead these efforts across teams at Apple, we want to talk to you!
This position requires someone with a passion for Quality Engineering to deliver high quality products to Apple Customers, as well as being a phenomenal partner with the Health Sensing Engineering teams. You possess the right set of skills to design and develop automation frameworks with a focus on scalability and reliability of the tests, while promoting coding best practices. As an automation expert, you will be defining requirements and providing solutions to automate the testing workflow with a strong sense of ownership. Participate in deep technical discussions with the engineering team, understand software workflows and use cases, and ensure testability of the system. You should have strong experience in developing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to validate system functionality and performance.
- Own verification and validation strategies for software running health algorithms on watchOS and iOS devices
- Identify efforts to increase test efficiency and productivity through developing robust and scalable test automation infrastructure and tooling
- Design and recommend logging telemetry to improve failure analysis, and efficiently gather quality metrics
- Present comprehensive product quality insights to stakeholders and leadership teams, leveraging test and quality metrics
- Engage in feature design reviews with cross-functional teams including program managers and software/hardware engineers to influence product design, optimize testability, and ensure effective implementation
- Participate and/or drive post mortem discussions to think strategically about how to prevent similar issues in the future
- Bachelors degree in (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field)
- Knowledge of software development and release lifecycle, including software updates
- Experience diagnosing and debugging sophisticated systems
- Proficiency in testing software frameworks and drivers
- Proficiency in scripting language such as Python and Shell
- Experience with data-driven testing strategies and approaches
- Proven background in testing methodologies (e.g. unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, functional testing, etc), tools, frameworks, and pipelines
- Experience identifying automation requirements and crafting solutions to address test execution challenges
- Experience with Objective C, XCTest, XCode
- Familiarity with health-regulated software testing and documentation process
- Familiarity with digital signal processing
- Familiarity with testing embedded devices
- Knowledge of Macintosh systems and Mac OS or UNIX variant
- Outstanding collaborative skills including networking, negotiating, documentation, and presentation skills
- Ability to think analytically and creatively, solve sophisticated problems, and innovate
- Self-motivated, proactive, enthusiastic about user-focused design & high-quality products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate close interaction with development teams, management, and other organizations with Apple
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