Apple
Machine Learning Engineer - AI & ML Evaluation Frameworks
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Jun 8, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of experience in ML Engineering or Applied ML.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field; MS/PhD preferred.
About the job
Build scalable evaluation infrastructure and investigate machine-learning model performance to improve the safety, reliability, fairness, and clinical rigor of Apple health features.
What you'll do
- Design evaluation frameworks and metrics for traditional ML systems and foundation models, including multimodal models.
- Conduct failure analysis and build tools to detect hallucinations, reasoning flaws, edge cases, and demographic bias.
- Develop synthetic-data pipelines, sensor-data adaptors, and visualizers; translate evaluation findings into engineering improvements.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in ML Engineering or Applied ML.
- Strong experience evaluating supervised, unsupervised, LLM, and deep learning models; hands-on failure analysis and model improvement.
- Proficiency in Python and production-grade code (OOP, CI/CD, Git); experience building data pipelines, inference frameworks, and automated evaluation systems.
Nice to have
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field.
- Experience with LLM or agentic-system evaluation, synthetic data, prompt engineering, parallel data processing, privacy-preserving ML, AI Safety, interpretability, or adversarial testing.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Python, OOP, CI/CD, Git, Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow, Federated Learning
AI focus
Evaluate traditional ML, LLMs, diffusion models, and multimodal foundation models; conduct failure analysis, detect clinical hallucinations and reasoning flaws, generate synthetic data, and measure demographic equity and safety.
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