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Apple's Vision Products Group (VPG) is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to champion quality on Spatial computing devices for live and on-demand media experiences on visionOS platforms.\nDescription\nIn this role, you will serve as the voice of the end user for live sports, events, and spatial media on visionOS. You will shape the quality of our client software by planning and coordinating testing across complex development cycles, working closely with development engineers, production teams, and delivery partners.\nYou will develop test plans, run quality reviews, support design reviews, and lead bug triage through resolution on Apple client devices. You will support testing across the media lifecycle, from live capture and distribution to on-device playback, performance, and reliability, and you will assess stream health and playback stability for features such as 3D playback and Apple Immersive Video. During live events, you will help execute testing, coordinate with engineering partners, and drive issues through to resolution under operational timelines.\nTo scale coverage, you will partner with automation engineers, contribute to test automation as your skills grow, and use Generative AI tools to speed up log analysis, failure classification, and reporting. You will balance these with hands-on exploratory, reliability, and performance testing on visionOS hardware.\nMinimum Qualifications\n10 years in end-user client software quality engineering, media or video QA, with experience writing test plans and coordinating test passes and reviews across engineering teams.\nFamiliarity with video streaming concepts (for example, HLS or DASH) and video formats (AVC, HEVC), with curiosity about spatial media playback.\nExperience leading and developing a team in a highly cross-functional environment.\nUnderstanding of test automation concepts and how automated tests fit into a quality strategy for OS frameworks such as AVKit and CoreMedia.\nProficient at balancing multiple efforts simultaneously and meeting deadlines. Passionate about user-focused design, high-quality applications, and iterative refinement.\nPractical use of Generative AI tools to support test workflows, such as log analysis or report generation.\nStrong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex issues into clear bug reports and readiness summaries.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building or maintaining automated test scripts, tools, or pipelines to run on Apple devices\nFamiliarity with Apple platform tools (Xcode, Swift) and media frameworks (AVFoundation and other OS media frameworks).\nWorking knowledge of visionOS, iOS, or macOS; experience debugging and profiling performance on client devices\nExperience with AR/VR, spatial computing devices\nExperience with CI/CD test pipelines; working across various OS media frameworks and platform teams.\nBS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Broadcast Engineering, or equivalent experience.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3145,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Operating Systems","Laptops","Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers","Tablets"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T16:58:38Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 37","filings_12m":6350,"filings_prev_12m":6527,"green_card_filings_12m":37,"median_offered_wage_usd":177355,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":217}],"liveness":{"score":99,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.993,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":117,"reasons":["conf:1","urgency","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/apple-software-quality-engineer-media-applications-live-experiences","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/apple-software-quality-engineer-media-applications-live-experiences.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T22:56:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8363,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":12},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=12"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fapple-software-quality-engineer-media-applications-live-experiences"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fapple-software-quality-engineer-media-applications-live-experiences"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fapple-software-quality-engineer-media-applications-live-experiences"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/apple-software-quality-engineer-media-applications-live-experiences\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fapple-software-quality-engineer-media-applications-live-experiences"}]}