Software Development Engineer - Test

Minato Until 9/22/2026 First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple don’t just build products ― we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Input Experience Test Engineering team are seeking an experienced and highly motivated engineer with excellent communication, technical, and debugging skills to help us build and validate the future of our core systems and experiences. We are looking for critical thinkers who would like to play a key role in designing and implementing software architecture that ensures our exciting new and existing software features continue to surprise and delight our customers around the globe.

Description

You will be responsible for building and deploying high performance and highly reliable testing at scale to ensure a consistently high quality standard for our products. In this role, you will be working on core input experience systems including Natural Language Processing, Internationalization, Pencil, Keyboards, and more. You will be responsible for taking ownership to drive all aspects of automated testing for this component and their integration across the system. You will be working with teams across the globe to support rapid code changes, articulate failures and identify issue trends as well as customer impact, create and maintain testing to validate new and existing feature, and contribute to frameworks that support reliable and rapid testing.

Minimum Qualifications

Strong programming and computer science fundamentals
Experience with automation frameworks and tools development
Strong organizational and communication skills
Ability to work remotely and independently
Detail oriented, analytical, and creative thinker with a passion for quality
Strong problem solving skills to investigate and debug difficult problems
Ability to function within a lean, agile, and fast-paced development environment
Experience in developing test plans, risk assessment, and reporting
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Swift/Objective-C and Python
Strong familiarity with Xcode and debugging tools
Excellent working knowledge of iOS and macOS
Japanese language proficiency or proficiency in a second language is a plus

About this role

Summary

Build and validate high-quality, automated testing systems for core Apple software features.

Job title

Software Development Engineer - Test

Experience level

professional level

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Must be in Minato, remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

programmingautomation frameworkscommunicationproblem solvingdebugging

Preferred skills

swiftobjective-cpythonxcodeios

Specializations

test automationsoftware architecturenatural language processinginternationalizationdebugging
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Remote City