Senior AI Evaluation Scientist — Quality & Validation

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Apple Benefits

Relocation assistance

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to advance AI evaluation and quality systems. You will design scalable ground-truth pipelines and real-time monitors, calibrate evaluators against human gold sets, and surface root-cause analysis to improve AI judgments.

Collaboration with ML teams and annotators ensures practical, trustworthy results. The role emphasizes fluency in research and engineering, with strong Python skills and production experience building LLM-based

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in applied science or machine learning with production-grade evaluation pipelines.
• Hands-on experience designing ground-truth generation pipelines across varied tasks and modalities.
• Experience building real-time monitoring or anomaly detection systems for live data.
• Knowledge of evaluation methodology for generative AI including LLM-as-a-judge design and calibration techniques.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and Python ML frameworks with production experience building monitoring pipelines.
• Ability to work with downstream users and communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, ML, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable ground truth generation pipelines across varied task types and modalities.
• Build and maintain real-time monitoring systems that detect drift and quality degradation in live evaluation pipelines.
• Design calibration frameworks to anchor LLM evaluators against gold sets.
• Develop root-cause analysis tooling to surface disagreement patterns between automated and human judgments.
• Collaborate with ML teams, evaluator developers, and annotators to ground design decisions in feedback.
• Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

5+ years experience

Real-time monitoring

Python & ML frameworks

LLM evaluation design

Stakeholder communication

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science/ML/Statistics

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Python

ML frameworks

Production pipelines

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to advance AI evaluation and quality systems. You will design scalable ground-truth pipelines and real-time monitors, calibrate evaluators against human gold sets, and surface root-cause analysis to improve AI judgments.

Collaboration with ML teams and annotators ensures practical, trustworthy results. The role emphasizes fluency in research and engineering, with strong Python skills and production experience building LLM-based