Senior AIML Platform Engineer: Evaluation & Quality

Apple; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grants

Health insurance

Job summary

Apple in Cupertino, CA is seeking a senior software engineer to own a core evaluation platform for Apple Intelligence, Siri, and generative features. You will shape architecture, roadmap, reliability, and developer experience across multiple teams, balancing product needs with scientific rigor.

In this ownership role, you will design testing strategies, build integrations with annotation and benchmarking platforms, and collaborate with teams building LLM judges.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including owning production systems used by other teams.
• Exceptional Python skills and a strong engineering understanding of system design, API design, system testing and validation, debugging and monitoring.
• Experienced in shipping production code with AI coding agents while keeping quality high.

Responsibilities

• Own a core evaluation system end-to-end for multiple features: architecture, roadmap, reliability, and developer experience.
• Design testing and validation strategies that catch real failures before partners do.
• Build and maintain integrations with annotation, compute, reporting, and benchmarking platforms.
• Partner with teams building LLM judges on our platform, turning their recurring needs into product.
• Set the bar for using AI coding agents without compromising quality.
• Customer-oriented: treats internal users' needs as the job, never loses sight of Apple customers and product quality, and communicates clearly to align cross-functional partners.

Skills

Python

API design

System design

Production systems

ML fundamentals

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or ML

Tools

LLM platforms

AI tooling

Job description

Apple in Cupertino, CA is seeking a senior software engineer to own a core evaluation platform for Apple Intelligence, Siri, and generative features. You will shape architecture, roadmap, reliability, and developer experience across multiple teams, balancing product needs with scientific rigor.

In this ownership role, you will design testing strategies, build integrations with annotation and benchmarking platforms, and collaborate with teams building LLM judges.