Machine Learning Engineer, AI & ML Evaluation Frameworks

Apple Inc

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Cupertino, CA
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$150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted
140 days ago
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TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineer, AI & ML Evaluation Frameworks

The Machine Learning Engineer - AI & ML Evaluation Frameworks joins the Health Sensing Machine Learning Interpretability & Analytics team to ensure clinical rigor and contextual trust in health sensing features. You will architect large-scale evaluation frameworks to interrogate unimodal ML systems and multi-modal foundation models, including LLMs and diffusion models. Daily responsibilities involve performing failure analysis to detect clinical hallucinations, building synthetic data pipelines to protect user privacy, and developing data adaptors for asynchronous time-series signals from wearables and cameras. You will use Python to write production-grade code and utilize tools like Spark, Kubernetes, and Airflow. Your work focuses on discovering biases, measuring demographic equity, and providing actionable engineering insights to improve the safety and reliability of digital health products.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?

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What you'll do

  • Design scalable frameworks to assess the performance, reliability, and safety of traditional ML and foundation models.
  • Perform deep-dive failure analysis to identify clinical hallucinations, reasoning flaws, and edge cases.
  • Build LLM and diffusion-based data generation pipelines to enable training without exposing real user data.
  • Develop data adaptors and visualizers to fuse asynchronous time-series signals from wearables and cameras.
  • Create generalizable tools and metrics to discover biases and measure demographic equity across populations.
  • Translate evaluation results into actionable engineering insights for researchers, algorithm leads, and clinical experts.

What we're looking for

  • BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field.
  • MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field (preferred).
  • 3+ years of experience in ML Engineering or Applied ML.
  • Strong experience evaluating supervised, unsupervised, LLMs, and deep learning models.
  • Proficiency in Python with the ability to write production-grade code using OOP, CI/CD, and Git.
  • Hands-on experience in failure analysis, evaluating LLMs, and driving model improvements.
  • Experience building data pipelines, inference frameworks, and automated evaluation systems.
  • Experience with synthetic data generation, parallel data processing, or AI Safety (preferred).

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