Responsibilities
* Help design and implement future technologies designed to ease software validation and installation OS in the factory
* Work cooperatively with other parts of Apple to diagnose and debug factory production issues
* Come up with new and innovative ways of increasing manufacturability and testability of our software while preserving ease-of-use and increasing the quality of the end-user experience.
* Evangelize and drive the adoption of these technologies and policies across the organization
* Up to 30% travel
Required Experience:
* A genuine passion for diagnosing hardware, software, and process issues.
* Demonstrated creative and critical independent-thinking capabilities and troubleshooting skills
* Industry exposure to and knowledge of OS tools and UNIX internals
* A strong software development background
* Objective-C/Cocoa programming a strong plus, iPhone programming experience a double plus
* Highly professional, with the ability to deliver high-quality work on tight schedules
* BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience/skills
Useful Experience:
* Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server exposure (administrator, developer)
* Previous experience with administering heterogeneous networks of UNIX, Linux and Windows machines
* Involvement in open source technologies and development communities such as Darwin, FreeBSD and Linux
* Knowledge of PHP, mySQL, database design and deployment