Drimva

Apple

Senior Manager, Evaluation, Services Special Projects

Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026

Experience
6+ years in machine learning, data science, or machine learning evaluation, including 3+ years of direct people management.
Education
Preferred: MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Leads a team building evaluation methods and systems to measure and improve the quality of a conversational AI service and inform release decisions.

What you'll do

  • Set evaluation direction and own methods, datasets, rubrics, and LLM-based automated grading for assigned product layers.
  • Lead, recruit, and mentor scientists and engineers; partner with engineering and applied ML teams to turn findings into product improvements.
  • Present quality status, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership and contribute evaluation results to release decisions.

What they ask for

  • 6+ years in machine learning, data science, or machine learning evaluation, including 3+ years of direct people management.
  • Track record hiring, developing, and leading applied science, data science, or machine learning engineering teams.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based autograders and rubrics, including evaluation-set development, validation, and calibration.
  • Experience evaluating conversational AI, search, recommendation, or ranking systems with offline metrics and online experimentation; strong statistics and experimental-design skills, including A/B testing.

Nice to have

  • Experience evaluating agentic or tool-use systems, relevance and ranking, or groundedness and factuality.
  • Experience with logging and instrumentation, synthetic evaluation data, third-party partner APIs, or privacy-preserving evaluation.

Tools

LLM

AI focus

Evaluates conversational AI, including request interpretation, retrieval and ranking, grounded response generation, and task execution through integrations; builds LLM-based autograders and rubrics.

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