AI Evaluations Engineer, US Decision Intelligence

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products

Free services

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking an AI Evaluations Engineer to own the end-to-end evaluation pipeline for AI products and agentic workflows. You will build and operate evaluation frameworks, instrumentation, and rubrics to measure accuracy, relevance, and latency across LLM outputs and agent actions.

The role requires deep experience with AI evaluation techniques, multiple LLM ecosystems, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive product quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data and AI-related fields such as AI engineering or data science.
• Experience with AI evaluation techniques like rubric-based scoring.
• Familiarity with multiple LLM ecosystems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini).
• SQL proficiency and data analytics platform exposure (Hadoop/Spark/Snowflake).
• CI/CD or release validation experience and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end AI evaluation frameworks and AB testing strategies.
• Build and operate evaluation workflows for LLM outputs across tasks.
• Define rubric-based scoring for correctness, relevance, grounding, and consistency.
• Instrument traces, prompts, responses, and user feedback for observability.
• Own the eval gate and pass/fail contracts for releases.
• Collaborate with AI engineers and platform teams to map requirements to criteria.

Skills

AI evaluation

SQL

CI/CD

Langfuse

Data analysis

Cross-functional

Education

B.S. in CS/Engineering

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

Pinecone

FAISS

Milvus

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Redis

Valkey

Langfuse

Job description

AI Evaluations Engineer, US Decision Intelligence

Cupertino, California, United States Machine Learning and AI

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming outstanding products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what you could accomplish.Apple’s Sales organization generates the revenue needed to fuel our ongoing development of products and services. This, in turn, enriches the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. We are, in many ways, the face of Apple to our largest customers.Apple's US Decision Intelligence (DI) team is looking for a talented individual who is passionate about crafting, implementing, and operating AI solutions that have a direct and measurable impact on Apple Sales and its customers.

Description

We’re seeking a visionary AI Evaluations Engineer to own the end-to-end evaluation pipeline for our AI products and agentic workflows. This role will focus on implementing and maintaining evaluation frameworks, instrumentation, and workflows that help us understand how well our AI systems perform, where they fail, and how they improve over time. You own the evaluation gate and the standards.This role will operate in both capacities, to augment existing AI roadmap, as well as innovate and trailblaze new frontier-technology projects, crafting AI experiences that reduce time to insight and catalyze decision making.

Responsibilities

• Architect a comprehensive Evals framework to trace at every layer, from agent responses breakdown, to skill level, and tool calling with the main objective to optimize for accuracy and performance improving latency and running AB tests to find the best recommendation across the system.
• Build and operate AI evaluation workflows that measure the quality of LLM outputs across chat, summarization, recommendations, and agentic actions.
• Implement rubric-based evals to score outputs for correctness, relevance, grounding, and consistency.
• Move beyond LLM-as-a-judge to agent-as-a-judge, including harness-as-a-judge patterns applied against real traces in a sandbox.
• Instrument LLM and agent workflows to capture traces, prompts and responses, metadata, and user feedback.
• Own the platform-wide eval gate: define the pass/fail contract every track ships against, and hold a release when it isn't met.
• Help define agent-specific evaluations (task completion, tool correctness, error recovery).
• Partner with AI engineers and AI platform teams to translate product requirements into evaluation criteria.
• Arbitrate eval disputes with track leads and own the standard that geo eval engineers implement agains.
• Define rerun policy and variance thresholds.
• Collaborate with the Evals team in India to maximize global impact.
• Contribute to system design for observability, retries, and logging.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data and AI-related fields such as AI engineering, software development, ML engineering, data science, or QA roles.
• Eagerness and ability to learn new skills and solve dynamic problems in an encouraging and expansive environment.
• Hands-on experience with AI evaluation techniques, such as Golden datasets, LLM-as-a-Judge, or rubric-based scoring.
• Experience with different LLM ecosystems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.), RAG pipelines, vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS, Milvus, PostgreSQL).
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with at least one major data analytics platform, such as Hadoop, Spark, or Snowflake.
• Experience with CI/CD or release validation workflows.
• Experience working with data science teams on insights generation leveraging LLMs.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.
• Able to balance competing priorities, long-term projects, and ad hoc requirements.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, constantly evolving business environment.
• Hands-on experience with Langfuse or similar tools for LLM observability.
• Comfortable working with product/domain experts to translate fuzzy correctness criteria into measurable rubrics or metrics.
• B.S. degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Sound communication skills - expert at messaging domain and technical content, at a level appropriate for the audience. Strong ability to gain trust with stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Familiarity with embeddings, retrieval algorithms, agents, and data modeling for vector and graph databases.
• Other complementary technologies for distributed systems architecture and asynchronous messaging, agent communication, and caching like RabbitMQ, Redis, and Valkey are preferred.
• Experience working across global teams to ensure alignment of product development.
• Applied knowledge of GenAI and RAG strategies, microservices, recommendation systems, and context engineering.
• Working knowledge of agent evaluation concepts like trajectory vs. end-to-end vs. component-level evaluation, tool-call correctness.
• Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Economics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or a similar quantitative field is preferred.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $184,700 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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