Apple
Software Engineer Manager: Agentic Evaluation Platform
$238K–$402K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years developing production software; 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- Education
- M.S. or B.S. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads a team building and operating the backend platform, compute orchestration, and evaluation systems used to assess Siri at scale and inform release decisions.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow engineers; set technical direction and roadmap, and deliver against them.
- Own evaluation APIs, compute orchestration, harnesses, data workflows, and interfaces across the platform.
- Improve reliability, diagnosability, and release-readiness reporting while partnering with engineering and infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years developing production software (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or Swift).
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, including roadmap and delivery ownership, mentoring, and performance feedback.
- Experience with test infrastructure, CI/CD, or evaluation/ML platforms; strong technical leadership and architectural direction.
- M.S. or B.S. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience applying LLMs or AI agents to engineering workflows, or familiarity with LLM and agentic evaluation.
- Depth in distributed systems, backend services, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or large-scale test and release infrastructure.
Pay
$237,600 and $401,700 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Java, Go, Swift, REST/gRPC, Docker/Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Kafka
AI focus
Leads a platform that uses AI agents and evaluation systems to steer, validate, and assess Siri and its capabilities at scale.
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