Apple
Machine Learning Evaluation Engineer
$150K–$278K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 3 years relevant industry experience; 3+ years applied experience in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or AI System Evaluation.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Design and deploy evaluation strategies, benchmarks, and analysis workflows to assess multimodal foundation models and computer-vision/ML algorithms and guide model improvements.
What you'll do
- Build scalable evaluation pipelines, metrics, benchmark datasets, and regression tests for text, image, and video tasks.
- Analyze model failures and dataset coverage; develop failure taxonomies and automated analysis and reporting workflows.
- Collaborate with model teams and other partners to provide actionable evaluation findings for model iteration and fine-tuning.
What they ask for
- BS and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience; 3+ years of applied experience in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or AI System Evaluation.
- Strong knowledge of ML principles and statistical methods, and experience assessing dataset quality, diversity, representativeness, and coverage.
- Applied experience with generative models, prompt tuning, subjective evaluation, human-in-the-loop methods, and rigorous benchmark and metric design.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience building automated evaluation pipelines; experience using AI-powered development and analysis tools.
Nice to have
- Theoretical and practical understanding of Computer Vision and Vision-Language Models.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Python, LLM-as-Judge, VLMs, LLM/VLM-as-a-Judge
AI focus
Evaluate multimodal foundation and generative models; use LLM-as-Judge and human grading, VLM-assisted dataset curation, and cloud-based LLM-powered workflows for failure analysis and reporting.
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