Apple
Director, Evaluation and Quality Assurance, Services Special Projects
$311K–$497K
Cupertino, California · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years required; 15+ years preferred.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and lead Apple’s evaluation and quality assurance function, defining quality measures and release gates for a product spanning conversational AI, ranking, external integrations, and financial transactions.
What you'll do
- Create automated grading and human evaluation programs, including metrics and evaluation processes.
- Integrate continuous evaluation results into release quality gates and prevent regressions across product and transaction workflows.
- Build and lead the organization, tooling, and operating processes while partnering with engineering, applied ML, and senior leadership.
What they ask for
- 12+ years in data science, machine learning evaluation, quality assurance, or test engineering, including leading multi-level organizations through managers.
- Experience building an evaluation or QA function from the ground up, including metrics, process, tooling, and organizational structure.
- Extensive experience with LLM-based autograders and rubrics, and with human evaluation methodology, logging, and A/B testing for consumer products at scale.
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- 15+ years in the stated fields, including leading multi-level QA or evaluation organizations through managers.
- Experience evaluating agentic or tool-use systems that take real-world actions.
Pay
USD $311,100 to $496,900 base salary
Tools
LLM-based autograders, A/B testing, third-party APIs
AI focus
Evaluation and quality assurance for conversational AI, recommendation, ranking, search, and potentially agentic or tool-use systems; includes LLM-based automated grading and human evaluation.
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