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Apple

AIML - Sr Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Evaluation

$238K–$402K

Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026

Experience
8+ years of professional experience; 3+ years of technical leadership, including direct people management.
Education
Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.

About the job

Leads a small engineering team building evaluation and optimization systems that turn foundation-model and agent failures into measurable improvements to models and Apple Intelligence experiences.

What you'll do

  • Build scalable model and agent evaluation systems, including benchmarks, LLM-based evaluators, simulation environments, and regression testing.
  • Lead the evaluation flywheel from failure diagnosis through prompt, agent, data, and post-training refinement.
  • Mentor engineers and set technical strategy while contributing to design, experimentation, implementation, and review.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years of professional experience in machine learning, applied research, or software engineering, including production ML systems or large-scale experimentation platforms.
  • 3+ years of technical leadership, including direct people management of machine learning or software engineers.
  • Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.
  • Strong Python and ML engineering skills, with deep experience in LLMs or agentic systems and automated evaluation methods.

Nice to have

  • Applying recent ML research to production systems or high-impact products.
  • Experience with automatic prompt/context optimization, synthetic data, agent evaluation, or privacy-preserving/on-device ML.

Pay

$237,600 to $401,700 USD base salary

Tools

Python, LLM-based evaluators, large language models, reward models, reinforcement learning

AI focus

Foundation-model and agent evaluation, automatic optimization, synthetic data generation, and post-training refinement.

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