Apple
Engineering Manager, Model & Algorithm Evaluation & Quality, Sensing & Connectivity
$206K–$356K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience; 2+ years leading and managing an engineering team.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or equivalent
About the job
Leads a team evaluating location-context algorithms and AI/ML models and owning the testing, automation, and release quality of related features across Apple operating systems.
What you'll do
- Set model evaluation and end-to-end quality strategy, including benchmarks, protocols, and validation of training data, features, and labels.
- Lead automation, continuous integration, analytics, and monitoring to measure feature quality and performance across releases.
- Hire, coach, and grow the team while coordinating quality and bug resolution with engineering and cross-functional partners.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- 2+ years leading and managing an engineering team, with a track record of growing engineers' skill sets and creating meaningful career growth
- Experience evaluating AI/ML models, including crafting benchmarks and evaluation protocols and performing statistical analysis; proficiency designing AI-assisted workflows using GenAI to accelerate testing, debugging, and metrics analysis
Nice to have
- Experience evaluating foundation models or LLMs, such as building eval harnesses, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge pipelines, or human-in-the-loop evaluation
- Experience with sensor, time-series, or on-device ML models, data pipelines, automation, test infrastructure, CI systems, or hardware-software integration
Pay
$206,200 and $356,400 (base salary)
Tools
AI/ML, GenAI, LLMs, iOS, watchOS, continuous integration
AI focus
Evaluates probabilistic, on-device AI/ML models for location-context features; uses GenAI to accelerate testing, debugging, and metrics analysis; work includes foundation-model integration, adaptation, and tuning.
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