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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