Drimva

Apple

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Evaluation, Agentic Search Capabilities

$185K–$325K

Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026

Experience
6+ years industry experience.
Education
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or related field.

About the job

Build evaluation systems and methods to measure and improve personalized agentic search experiences across Siri and Apple products while protecting personal data.

What you'll do

  • Build scalable, automated end-to-end evaluation systems for models and search-powered systems.
  • Develop data generation, curation, and quality assessment methods, plus online and offline quality metrics.
  • Collaborate with partner teams and set the technical vision and roadmap for personal search quality.

What they ask for

  • 6+ years industry experience building Machine Learning or ML evaluation systems at scale.
  • Strong software engineering skills in mainstream programming languages, such as Python, C/C++.
  • Ability to quickly prototype ideas and solutions, and perform critical analysis; strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or related field.

Nice to have

  • Experience building production ML systems in search, NLP, recommendation systems, or information retrieval; experience with data collection, generation, or quality assessment.
  • Strong skills in quality metrics, evaluation interpretation, and presenting to executive audiences; advanced degree or equivalent industry work experience.

Pay

$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary

Tools

Python, C/C++

AI focus

Evaluate and improve personalized agentic search, including data generation and quality assessment, and online and offline metrics for ML models and search systems.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)