Systems Design Engineer, Field Diagnostic Tools & Systems Engineering **Sunnyvale, California, United States** **Support and Service** **Summary** Posted: **Sep 16, 2025** Role Number: **200595699-3956** Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. This is a role of a software engineer who will be responsible for building highly scalable and available AppleCare diagnostics tools set. **Description** The Field Service Diagnostics Engineering group is part of AppleCare organization. We help build and supports all hardware diagnostics used by support technicians for Apple products in Apple retail and other service channels. We strive hard to deliver the best possible customer and technician experience by providing high-quality, easy to use tools to support all Apple products. As part of the team you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our existing diagnostics systems and tools, diagnostic scripts and configuration data. They will have to work with multi-functional engineering teams across Apple to gather requirements, define, develop, and help test the next generation of diagnostic and troubleshooting tools for AppleCare. An ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of programming scalable systems and systems. **Minimum Qualifications** + Computer Science or EECS BS/MS Degree + 3+ years of software development experience + 2+ years experience with scripting languages such as Lua, Python, bash + 2+ years experience working with relational DB such as Postgres, mySQL **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience in application unit testing and deployment + Experience in developing web backend services using languages such as Go (golang), Javascript (node.js), or similar + Experience in frontend development is preferred (react programming language) **Pay & Benefits** At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $172,100 and $258,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 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