Senior Manager, Evaluation - Data Science & Insights

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$225,600–$381,600 / yr
Posted
22 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Evaluation - Data Science & Insights

AIML - Sr Manager, Evaluation - Data Science & Insights leads a team of data scientists within the Data Science and Insights organization. This role focuses on a core pillar of evaluation for Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, and other large-scale features. The manager is responsible for owning the evaluation roadmap, recruiting and developing technical talent, and translating broad strategies into concrete deliverables. Day-to-day work involves driving execution across human evaluation methodologies and building LLM-based autograders and rubrics to improve models and agentic features. The role requires collaborating with engineering teams to embed evaluation into development cycles and communicating results to senior leadership. Key requirements include expertise in machine learning evaluation, experience with logging infrastructure, and familiarity with evaluation frameworks for agentic systems and tool-use to ensure high quality and privacy standards.

What you'll do

  • Own the evaluation roadmap by translating organizational strategy into concrete methods and deliverables.
  • Lead, recruit, and develop a team of data scientists across multiple technical disciplines.
  • Execute human evaluation methodologies for large-scale consumer-facing products.
  • Build and deploy LLM-based autograders and rubrics to improve model performance.
  • Integrate evaluation metrics into product development cycles to drive measurable quality gains.
  • Represent the team's work and results to senior leadership across AIML and SWE.
  • Manage the trade-offs between feature quality and privacy for high-scale products.

What we're looking for

  • Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or similar.
  • 6+ years of experience in data science and machine learning evaluation.
  • 3+ years of experience leading technical teams.
  • Demonstrated track record of running teams of 7+ data scientists and/or machine learning engineers.
  • Strong experience in human evaluation methodology for consumer-facing products at scale.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based autograders and rubrics to drive improvements in models and agentic features.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to engage with engineers and senior leadership.
  • Experience evaluating large consumer AI products, logging infrastructure, or evaluation frameworks for agentic systems (preferred).

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