Drimva

Apple

Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Evaluation Platform

$175K–$263K

Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted May 21, 2026

Experience
5+ years in a specified or related highly technical, cross-functional role.

About the job

Leads adoption and integration of Apple’s AI evaluation platform, connecting research, engineering, product, and ML practitioners to turn evaluation science into scalable, developer-friendly tools.

What you'll do

  • Align Science, Platform Engineering, and Product Management on execution and roadmaps; integrate evaluation tools into partner workflows and promote self-service adoption.
  • Gather developer needs and feedback, then use it to inform platform API quality, developer experience, and roadmap decisions.
  • Translate research metrics and scoring algorithms into production services; create demos, tutorials, and reference implementations.

What they ask for

  • Experience in a highly technical, cross-functional role such as Solutions Architecture, Forward-Deployed Engineering, Developer Advocacy, or Technical Program Management.
  • Experience serving as a technical partner to internal customers and translating ambiguous requirements into engineering specifications.
  • Functional understanding of machine-learning lifecycle and concepts, including datasets, training versus inference, and evaluation metrics.
  • Experience partnering with applied scientists or researchers to operationalize scientific code.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks such as DeepEval, Ragas, TruLens, or LangSmith.
  • Experience designing self-service research tools, serving as a strategic proxy for a technical organization, or bridging research and production engineering.

Pay

$175,000 and $263,300 USD base salary

Tools

DeepEval, Ragas, TruLens, LangSmith

AI focus

Build and drive adoption of AI evaluation systems for LLMs, agentic systems, and human-AI interaction; operationalize evaluation metrics and scoring algorithms as scalable production services.

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