Apple
AI Evaluations Engineer, US Decision Intelligence
$185K–$278K
Austin, Texas +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Cupertino, California - Experience
- 5+ years in data and AI-related fields.
- Education
- B.S. degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Owns the evaluation pipeline and release standards for AI products and agentic workflows, measuring quality and improving system accuracy, performance, and latency.
What you'll do
- Build and operate evaluations for LLM outputs and agent actions, including rubric-based scoring and real-trace evaluation.
- Instrument workflows and own the platform-wide pass/fail evaluation gate, rerun policy, and variance thresholds.
- Partner with AI engineering, platform, and global evaluation teams to define criteria and improve observability, retries, and logging.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in data and AI-related fields, such as AI engineering, software development, ML engineering, data science, or QA.
- Strong Python skills and proficiency in SQL, plus experience with at least one major data analytics platform.
- Hands-on experience with AI evaluation techniques and Langfuse or similar LLM observability tools.
- B.S. in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with embeddings, retrieval algorithms, agents, and vector or graph database data modeling.
- Experience with GenAI and RAG strategies, microservices, recommendation systems, agent evaluation, or distributed systems technologies.
Pay
USD $184,700 to $277,600 base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Pinecone, FAISS, Langfuse
AI focus
Develop and evaluate AI products and agentic workflows, including LLM output quality, task completion, tool correctness, and grounded recommendations; improve accuracy, performance, and latency.
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