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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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First seen Oct 23, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)